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Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Availability of Metadata Field in Webhook

If Webhook has a ability to incorporate device Metadata , we can use this fields to steer ticket / INC while raising webhook to Service Now / any other 3rd Party Tool
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support Grafana as a target for Turbonomic for observability/apm

Customer uses Grafana and would like support for it as a target configuration!
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Adding a Date Picker to Date data columns in Editable tables

This would enhance the user interface experience and it is almost a standard in many applications to select a date using a date picker.
7 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Cloudability API to check status of credentialed Azure subscriptions

Softcat would like to implement an API call whereby they can check the status of an Azure subscription. This is good governance around implementing a process that can programatically check the status of Azure subscriptions and if they need to be c...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Provide "Effective" Rate reporting (not just on demand)

In both ABI and Cloudability rather than just show the potential "on demand" rates for rightsizing opportunities, show the "effective" rate taking into account the customer discounts / EDP / RI / commitments to make the outcomes more real for cust...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Automatic disable scheduled runs of datalink during maintenance/release upgrade

If a datalink run is started during maintenance it can result in tables being in use in Apptio CT and failed runs in datalink
13 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted