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Expand parking functionaly beyond cloud VMs

Parking employs API calls to stop and start VMs running in the cloud. But why limit it to that? Understandably, the functionality was built for that particular and valuable use case, but it would be advantageous to extend that functionality to any...

Get Last Filter Value

When using the Get Last Filter Value function in HTML for a drill report, we want the function (or a new function) to show the user the value that they just clicked to perform the drill. In theory, the thing they clicked is the exact last filter a...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Add API Key as an authentication type for ServiceNow

ServiceNow authentications currenlty support local account username/password or SAML/OAUTHI'd like to see support for API KEY under the username/password authentication similar to the one for SevOne. https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/xanadu-p...
3 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Javascript map files should not be downloaded repeatedly

The Website monitoring supports minified javascript through parsing of mapping files. However these mapping files are not cached by Instana so they are downloaded repeatedly. For big applications this means millions of downloads of files which are...
3 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Partner access that removes access to see fully loaded costs and work out the enterprise discount

Within my client they work extensively with external entities [TCS, CTS, WIPRO etc] to manage their infrastructure. They do not want to allow these partners to see the full costs in cloudability that are shown in the dashboarding and insights pane...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

To customize HTTP Header for the native OAuth Provider.

For the API Connect native OAuth flow, after the completion of the authentication by AU/AZ server, API Connect will trigger an API call to the AU/AZ server to confirm the confirmation code. However, we found that the HTTP Header of the API is empt...
4 days ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Change the information displayed on the Target configuration screen to something more useful.

On there target configuration screen it displays the "Last modified" date, while useful, last successful connection date would be much more useful. Display "Last modified" in the edit or view. In the attached screenshot it shows two connections do...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
about 1 month ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review