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Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Submitted

Effective scope identification for Azure Compute RIs in Commitment Portfolio

Currently, it's not possible to see in Reservation Portfolio what is the scope for a paricular Azure Compute reservation (Subscription or Resource Group). CLDY shows where a reservation has been purchased at the subscription/account level. It woul...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Application Map - unable to view all 'underlying entities' when selecting 'View Details'.

related to case TS018549927. when using tag filtering during manual application map configuration. it is not possible to see the full path and configuration detail of the filter when selecting 'view details'. The only way to see this information i...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add Infrastructure Inventory

This idea would be similar to how you have access_points for certs For our use case with ingesting certs: We have windows servers with many keystore locations on each server The same cert can be included in many of the keystores across many server...
13 days ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Ability to remove default date range from ApptioBI Report

Problem:Right now if an admin or report owner sets a default date range on an ApptioBI report in the global date range selector, there is no way to return to a state where a default date range is not set for that report. You can only update what t...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow sorting and Top X result limits in ApptioBI stacked column graphs with two dimensions to be determined by total column measure height for the first dimension

The same concept applies to stacked bar graphs. Problem: Right now the sorting and Top X results limit are determined by the measure value for the the intersection of Dimension 1 and Dimension 2. This leads to odd sorting in the graph where the ta...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
13 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Do not allow report users to select more alternative dimensions than are supported by a visual

Problem: Right now if you configure a graph visual such as a stacked bar with a primary dimension and multiple alternate dimensions the alternate dimension menu the user interacts with is a multi-select in which the user can check the boxes beside...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted