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To be able to control how broker jobs execute, alphabetically vs based on start time.

Currently dynamic broker jobs execute in alphabetical order and if jobs back up for any reason, then jobs at higher alphabet order execute first and lower alphabet jobs wait even though start time was in past. This causes SLA's to be missed and no...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Planning and Apptio BI permissions to be independent

Would like the ability to add users to Apptio BI to view planning data via the reports but not give them to have access to planning. It seems unnecessary to add a bunch of users to planning and bog down the system when they just need to view repor...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

While WebSphere supports MFA redirection but WebGUI is not tested nor supported

Currently WAS Security configurations (such as authentication) are strictly configured at the WebSphere level. From our discussion with our WAS team we understand now that for MFA, Websphere would only need to be configured to redirect to either a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

High Availability for the JDBC2 Gateway

The customer would like to ensure that gateways are running all the time and if the primary server [gateway] goes down then secondary should be available.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Manually setting sampling rate to SevOne NMS.

When monitoring Sampled NetFlow, It needs to configure the sampling rate on the network device to send it to SevOne.Without this configuration, SevOne will not recognize the sampling rate, and the traffic volume displayed on the Flow widget will b...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration