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Do not throw error for unneeded columns in imports that are present in the export file

Importing a file directly produced by the export data action should not throw any errors. The system should be able to export and immediately reimport with no issues or alterations to the data required by the user. I understand that cost center co...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Extend Incident Restriction Filter capability to allow custom Alert Fields to be used

Access Control (RBAC) is generally aligned to categories such as affected customer/environment, security restrictions etc. Source data allowing classification is present in the Alerts (and used successfully to enable Restriction Filters in the Ale...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Custom endpoint levels

Today can you do custom endpoints URL using the "Configure Endpoint Extraction". It would be great if you could do custom endpoints URL with levels. For example if you do a custom endpoint for a specific URL then when you click on it in Analytics ...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Instana in Jazz for SM

There is a need to integrate Instana portal in same DASH portal as Netcool Omnibus and ITNM. This way administrators would access Instana pages from same portal that contained notification in alarm form that there is an issue with application. Thi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove final plans from the plan drop down and only have these available in the compare and summary compare area

Currently all the plans are available in the drop down but you can only edit new and open plans. it would be good if you could hide the final plans but have them available in the expense tab as a drop down and the summary/dashboard report as a com...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

make ldap-configuration more customizable

For a NOI installation running on OCP with LDAP mode proxy, it is an absolute requirement that the users icpadmin and impactadmin must exist in the connected LDAP. The names of these users are not freely selectable, but must be exactly the same. T...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Planned for future release