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Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

ITNM observer should be extened to bring in various collection objects ( VLAN , L2 and L3 VPN , BGP , OSPF , RAN , EPC , LTE etc ) disocvered by ITNM as Topology/Resource group Objects in ASM

Currently ITNM observer don't bring all sort of collections ( VLAN , various layer 2/3 VPNs , BGP , OSPF , LAG , Subnet etc ) that ITNM has modeled and discovered in ITNM as Topology Resource group objects in ASM . Thisis the key area where we can...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add to DWC "TEXT EDIT" option to IWS Workload Designer , similar to the layout of composer

As discussed with Marco and DWC level 3 development team , last week. We would like to see an enhancement to DWC Workload Designer where we can have the option of " Text Editor" , so the IWS object we have chosen is displayed similar to the compos...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Ability to use email subscriptions with Row Level security

We have a need to be able to export a report into PDF by Business Unit and email that PDF to the Business Unit owner for our Bill of IT. We have a list of emails by Business Unit and have created a report that is the exact format needed. As we hav...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Ability to export list of datalink connectors

I would like the ability to export the full list of datalink connectors and the relevant summary data related to the datalink connectors. This would be helpful in making a list of datalink connectors that might need to be reviewed for different pu...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to add additional columns to Connections summary

As a TBMA, I often need to review my datalink connectors and how they are set up. For example, when closing time in Cost Transparency (Example, I want to remove 2024 from CT) I may need to review all my datalink connectors that are set to drop tab...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review