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Access Administration role permissions to enable View Only access for ApptioBI

Problem:Right now the minimum Apptio BI permission set enables all users to create their own reports from scratch or duplicate existing reports to customer further. There is no way to ensure all reports have been fully vetted and validated by subj...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability for report owner to set a default value for a global filter (and reset to no default configured)

Problem:Right now there is no way to set a default selection for an Apptio BI report global filter. There are many cases where being able to choose a default selected value meets the use cases of the majority of the report users, but we still want...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to clear an individual global filter and reset to zero selections

Problem:Right now there is only the ability to clear all global filters at once. If you only want to rest and clear a single global filter but leave the rest as-is, you need to go into in and uncheck all of the boxes one by one for the filter you ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add "Week" to Date Range View By date granularity options

Problem: Currently the dat granularity grouping options when configuring an Apptio BI visualization are none, day, month, quarter, half year, year. Workload can often have weekday vs weekend cyclical patterns and that regular variance can make it ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

GCP Workflow Plugin: Enable Custom Project ID for Execution

We request the implementation of a new feature in the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) that allows users to explicitly specify a Google Cloud Project ID for workflow execution. Currently, it appears that ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Automated Custom certificates with no down time

We have a huge environment and distributing the certificates or scripts to each agent is not feasible. Provide an automated certificate process where the new certs are provisioned on each agent in parallel with the existing ones to allow either of...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration