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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

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

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
27 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Support for AWS Cost Categories

We currently have AWS cost categories in place and is extensively used to reflect our organisation structure, ownership and allocation for our costs. Rather than redoing this work via Business Mapping it would be great if Cloudability could import...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Adding natural logarithm function to TBM studio

Adding a natural logarithm (ln) function to TBM Studio would enable users to perform Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis for cost allocation decomposition. LMDI is a widely-used method in decomposition but requires natural log calculati...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools

Proposed Enhancement Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools. This would allow: Temporary suspension of compute resources without deleting the pool. Retention of configurations...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Display ServiceNow Incident number for AIOps incidents in Incident View

It would be beneficial to the operations team to quickly check the corresponding ServiceNow incident numbers for AIOps incidents in Incident view. It would also help identify quickly if any AIOps incidents missed ServiceNow incident creation and t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review