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Add Comments to Price Book Rules

Adding comments to price book rules would make it easier to track the intended effects of each price book rule along with changes and adjustments made over time.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS.

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS similar to what is shipped along with the product for DB2 database.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

New text box for Validation and Automation Rules

The Validation and Automation Rules, need a note box. Since the Description is really the title, there is a need for a text box for general notes. Nothing fancy, just a field to put notes in that you don’t want in the Description box.
6 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Apply a filter to the entire dashboard

Like the new feature that allows us to select a date range for an entire dashboard, I would like to be able to select other dimensions as a filter, rather than having to create a view each time.For example : Filter a dashboard by AWS payer ID, or ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Monitoring/compatibility issue: jvm_attach_generic - part of magic xpi monitoring

As per the customer- The host agent cannot attach correctly to this Java Virtual Machine. Therefore, this process will not be traced. Refer to the host agent logs for more information as to why the attachment failed. The host agent will try to con...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 6 Is a defect

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Improvement "Related" functionality in TMB Studio

It will be very handful to add into functionality "Related" tables that are using current table as a source table. The same for Lineage, now it`s not showing any relation between these tables.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted