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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

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

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Backing up of Apptio BI Reports

Hi , my suggestion is that thru report collections to include also filters and insights meaning to include 100% of the information of Apptio BI reports in the export Json file . maybe with a way to export these thru an API (for further automatizat...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Network configuration manager capability

To complement the monitoring capabilities, we're looking for SevOne to have a Network Configuration Manager module for backups and versioning.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Expand Cldy Container Insights to ECS

A large portion of our container usage is using ECS. It would be helpful for the Cldy Container Insights to work with ECS.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
8 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review