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Cost Center Owner access approval should be one and avoid manual addition

After a new user has got added to "Cost Center Owner" group the new user still does not have access. The new user needs to again request access to "Cost Object Permissions" which needs to be done manually by a Planning super user. This manual dire...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Functionality already exists

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 5 Functionality already exists

Need fully functional Tag-Based Views in Cloudability, using top-level account tags only (not resource tags)

When using a top-level tag view, the customers are unable to see Insights/Containers, Committment Portfilio, Committment Recs, or Committment Manager. Whne selecting any of the listed options, and error is thrown similar to this one for Containers...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Having a scroll bar, pinned feature, reorder tabs in TBM studio

Our admin team would like the ability to have a scroll feature, pinned feature, and the ability to reorder table tabs added to the bottom of TBM studio.  When performing configuration or troubleshooting, or data loading, the amount of tabs ne...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Future consideration

Modify the time span between alert clearance and alert deletion and trigger policy when an alert is deleted

Background In the current IBM AIOps , alerts that reach the cleared state are automatically deleted after approximately 2 minutes.While this default behavior helps optimize database performance, it lacks flexibility for environments that require l...
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review