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Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

The federal reserve is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to updat...
16 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

More Enhanced reporting for Anomaly Detection

Customer is able to see multiple anomalies in his tool. It's difficult for the customer to identify from which cost center the anomaly is coming from. Currently in the tool if we create a report for a specific anomaly, we have to add dimensions ma...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version

We need a support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version
17 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Planned for future release

logs when status maps are updated

Currently, logs are only recorded in the audit logs when maps are created, deleted, or renamed. However, there are no logs generated when the contents of status maps, such as nodes or paths, are updated. Implementing such logging would help identi...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Under review