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Scope level access needed for CSA UI

In IBM , we have multiple AWS master payers from different business units onboarded onto our CSA instance as different scopes. The stakeholders for these master payers would like to get access to the CSA UI, to see their savings, utilization etc. ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
6 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

Enable SSO account provisioning on NMS

We want new users who authenticate via SSO successfully to be able to access SevOne NMS without explicitly needing an account previously created and mapped to that same user. Currently your system only allows users with manually created accounts t...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration