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Download formula step for easier copy and pasting

If you are building in a branch and you have a lot of formulas to copy over to the trunk, assuming you don't want to merge, you can download the formulas all at once to an excel or other tool.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Case Summary post indicates the current values of these fields, not the values as they were submitted

From: IBM Support (do not reply) <ibmsupportnoreply@us.ibm.com> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2025 11:47 AM To: Read, Sam <sam.read@landg.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Case closed - TS019792655 - Apptio - 0355650 Case closed - TS019792655 21 July ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

WebMethods Integration Server internall calls filtering

Hello, Currently there is a functionality that enables monitoring of all WebMethods Integration Server internall calls https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=machine-configuring-java-sensor#enabling-internal-service-calls-...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Add variable table at the folder level

Allow the ability to add a variable table at the folder level. We have variables defined for workstations, but those workstations support multiple functional areas, and most functional areas will override at least one default from the workstation....
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Limit Exposure of Business Mappings

Some Business Mapping steps are intermediary and are used to create data subsets that are included or excluded in other final business mappings to help with logic challenges or re-usabiity (include vs anti). These intermediary Business Mappings id...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration