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Export of containers from Insights 2.0 - column name obfuscation. Needs to reflect the actual column names from the Insights page.

Very difficult to read column name in export as it presents, can't figure out what cost belongs to what
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information

To upload a spreadsheet to create Views

Need easy functionality to create logic in view, very difficult with current API and UI setup
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Under review

Allow Business Metrics to be used as a Filter in Views

Allowing Business Metrics to be used as a View Filter will allow the customer to better control the default data seen by users by combining this request with the existing ability to set a default View for users.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Enhanced Report Export for AWS Commitment Recommendations

We are currently working on AWS commitment recommendations and have encountered a limitation in the report export functionality. Specifically, when exporting reports from Cloudability, the output includes all instances available for reservations w...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Authentication with OMNIbus jconnect only supports passwords up to 30 characters

Customer is using the ObjectServer for authentication of users logging into WebGUI/DASH. The password for the users is coming over an LDAP-integration of the ObjectServer. For users that do not have OMNIbus client libraries and due to password siz...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to pull usage metrics from Cloudability into TBM Studio

Currently we can only pull cost into studio. Would would like to be able to pull other metrics such as vCPU Hours.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

ASM Topology Dashboard Favorites Inner Status Coloring

When I create a topology dashboard template and set it as favorite, a nice bubble icon with status colors appear for topology drill down. The pie chart around the icon is actually showing status severity of all topology related objects. Which basi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release