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Adding functionality for correlating ACE services with the backend.

Hi Team, This AHA request is linked to IBM Support case TS019666166 regarding unmonitored components in our infrastructure. We request product enhancement to provide visibility and correlation for these components within Instana The component in q...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Support Cost Estimation for Scale Actions Without Billing Data Using AWS Public Pricing

In cases where cloud contracts are managed through vendors, it is sometimes not possible to reference the corresponding Billing targets. Under the current specification, this limitation prevents accurate cost calculations for scale actions due to ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Per-Vendor Exchange Rate Configuration for Multi-Currency System

Today, Cloudability’s Multi-Currency System (MCS) allows organizations to consolidate costs into a single currency using a global exchange rate. However, many enterprises operate in environments where each vendor or contract may use a different ex...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to Send Anomaly Alerts to multiple people

Currently everyone who wants to receive alerts on anomalies has to create their own email alerts because it only sends to yourself. It would be helpful to be able to add multiple people to an anomaly email alert so that multiple people can get not...

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Support Fortigate VDOM-aware discovery and unidirectional LLDP stitching in ITNM

Currently ITNM discovery for Fortinet Fortigate firewalls does not fully work as expected. The product does not correctly recognize VDOM contexts, which results in duplicate or incorrect interface IP addresses (extra octet, e.g. 10.76.194.58.14). ...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration