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Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

VMem Request recommendation mode - resize ABOVE max

Select the bottom to enable/disable recommendation's generation below and ABOVE the VMem Request value. Adding a screenshot of the tool with the below option already available. Would be possible to add the resize ABOVE, too?
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Add "Advanced" tab to Edit SNMP Object Type editor

Advanced mode of the Edit SNMP Object Type editor extends the capability of adding more attributes to the object during discovery. There is an idea already contributed where some of the OIDs polled may be used for metadata attributes but this Adva...
22 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable Linking to Other Ticket IDs in Rightsizing ROI Screen Comments Description

Customer wants the ability to link to other ticket IDs within the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When documenting the status of a detected resource, we often refer to similar cases that have already been addressed. In s...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Customer would like to request the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section.

Customer would like the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section. Background: When reviewing recommendations, customer sometimes needs to locate the corresponding resource...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Alphabetical sort of the freeze columns interface

easier end user experience to find the column(s) you are trying to freeze
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists