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Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Enable contextual search in Custom Reference Data entries

Custom Reference Data entries should enable contextual search during entering on both Name and Code columns.
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
11 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Audit history for validation rule

log of configuration changes of validation rule
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add Function to Remove double spaces within text fields

There is double or triple spaces within Journal Line Description text field in the GL data. I would like a function to remove these multiple spaces in a row like the trim function does in excel. In TBM Studio the trim function only removes spaces ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

ITP Contracts tab - There should be more options for automatically accruing the contracts

More options for automatically accruing the contracts: annual, quarterly (with the possibility of setting the initial payment date).There need to be more options to spread the contract costs. Sometimes the payment is quarterly and contracts tab do...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

TNCM Self Monitoring - Healthcheck

Self Monitoring of TNCM The client would like to have self-monitoring of TNCM, to provide visibility to the Ops team managing TNCM. They would like this provided in the same way as other products in the Netcool suite, ie via events to Netcool OMNI...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration