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Audit Log Files JSON Format

After the IWA upgrade from 9.5.3 to 10.2.2, DB logs were showing the JSON format. We tried upgrading to 10.2.5 as well. We are doing audits on a weekly basis, and as part of this process, we retrieve the database logs from the path mentioned below...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Excel Import and Export support

Currently it is not possible to directly upload Excel (xlsx) files into Apptio planning or for exporting from Apptio Planning. This creates a lot of issues with Admins and End Users leading to incorrect plans and/ or reference data. It is not poss...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Ability to Hide Dimensions in Cldy from End Users

There are some dimensions that are CSP specific and others that are duplicates (when we have to create an account group or business dimension for the dimension to be available for utilization reporting for example). It would be helpful to be able ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

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 ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration