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Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Language Setting Option to allows users to select their preferred language

The Language Setting Option is a crucial feature that allows users to select their preferred language, such as Japanese, Spanish, and others, instead of being limited to English. Current Situation:  Currently, our users primarily utilize th...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Data Insight Widget - Alert Profile (Addition to Alert Details and Alert Summary Widgets)

Most Monitoring Tools have a dedicated way to tell the end user what polices your device will trigger on. We are looking for a widget that would define all applicable policies to a device. This widget would require you to select a device variable,...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
12 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 2 Future consideration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

IT Planning Selective Edits to External Data

As a TBMA and user of IT Planning, we would like the ability to selectively edit certain columns within an External data set.  An example would be that we import External data into IT Planning and make all columns read-only with the exception...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Quick add, drag&drop, prioritization, customization of columns and filtering for fourth level (sub-level) in lists

Currently quick add and drag&drop are only available for entities selected in view setup (lets call this first "three levels", when both axes are selected). So called "fourth level" (which user cannot select, as it is hardcoded in the system) ...
over 11 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release