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Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
15 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Datalink: Show destination time period and add filters in main report

Add a column to show destination time period: It would be helpful especially at year end if we could see the Destination time frame. Annually we have to check each datalink (or maintain a separate list) of the tables that load to the first period ...
22 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
22 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Ability to assign and track investigation status of Cloudability cost anomalies in Cloudability UI

Problem:Right now in the Cloudability Cost Anomly you get a list of alerts for unusual/unexpected cost increases. The content of the alerts themselves is useful and provides the information needed to dig deeper. The challenge comes when trying to ...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
29 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Update BIOS in OVA distribution from legacy BIOS to EUFI

Current BIOS in Rocky Linux OVA is legacy BIOS. Customer is requesting an EUFI BIOS image.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 5 Future consideration