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Custom colour palette in ApptioBI and Cloudability widgets

As a report builder in these two products I struggle to highlight what I want to, due to the standardised default colour palete. We get no ability to change whatever colours the widgets decide on. I work for a group of companies. Each has it's own...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Synthetic POP support for the s390x architecture

In order to perform Synthetic Monitoring within Instana a Synthetic POP must be established. Unfortunately container images for Synthetic POP are only available for the x86 architecture. Our Instana environment is running on an OpenShift cluster t...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Add Search Functionality in Entity History Section for Improved Field Tracking

Currently, each entity has a history section where we can see the update history of each field. When there are only a few fields, the current UI works well. However, for entities with 100+ fields that are kept for long periods, tracking the histor...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
7 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Closed Project Codes non-selectable in Plans

This would be useful because Project Codes close during a fiscal year and need to be retained in reference data for the associated line items in the plan. However, if end users are unaware that a code has been closed, they can still plan expenses ...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration