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Display multiple owners for 1 application

For 1-to-many relationships, I’m looking for a feature that allows the “many” values to display on a single row in reporting (separated by a character, e.g. semi-colon) instead of just displaying an ellipses indicating Various. In addition to maki...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Self-Service capability to Postpone Scheduled Parking Shutdown

Introduce a self-service feature similar to Azure’s "Auto-shutdown" mechanism. Before a scheduled VM parking event, send an email notification to the designated VM owner. This email should offer the option to postpone the shutdown by 1 hour, 2 hou...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario. 1. Server down 2. Password expired 3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Submitted

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Submitted

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Submitted

Monitor for port status 'Listening'/'Non-Listening'

We want to monitor for ports on IBMi. Currently the port monitoring is not available to check if a port is listening or not. Currently it only monitors for 'Connection Established status' on the monitored port. But if port is not listening at all ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Submitted

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted