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Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
17 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Would like to see parent Azure service principal in each of the Azure subscriptions (children) in the Related targets tab

Currently, the Azure service principal creates child targets for each subscription that it can discover in the Turbonomic target configuration page. When you click on ellipses on right, next to the subscription to view it, then click on the Relate...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
4 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
18 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow hierarchical slicer in TBM Studio report subscription

Currently if a report uses hierarchical slicers, those slicers are not available to be selected in the report subscription dialogue. This forces configuration changes on the report (removing hierarchical slicers and replacing with normal slicers) ...
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Consolidate Resource Name across all CSPs into a single dimension

AWS uses the "name" tag, Azure needs a regex business mapping and GCP/SaaS platforms use Resource Name. Consolidating all vendors into the Resource Name field would make it easier to report on and use in business mappings.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Display work items for teams that are inactive in Target Process

This feature would allow users to view all work items assigned to teams that have been marked as inactive in Targetprocess. Currently, when a team becomes inactive, its associated work items can become difficult to track, leading to delays, missed...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Search 0 Submitted

Alert Severity - distribution by Policy ID.

The ability to show alerts and show a "distribution by device" is quite useful. However what is really required is to see a breakdown by Policy ID. This can then also be based on a Variable that allows Policy ID selection (i.e. dynamic filter as p...
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Variable option for Policy ID.

Whilst the widget provides options to filter on it requires permissions that not all users have as well as changing report behaviour if a user were to set. What is required is a variable that can be used to only show alerts matching one or more po...
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted