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Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

AIOps Incident Lifecycle - User Config Option for Incident Closure Resolved State for Incident

The current lifecycle process doesn’t allow users to control when or how an incident should be marked as resolved or closed—it’s fully automated based on the Netcool alert status. This becomes an issue in certain use cases, especially when inciden...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

MS Teams Integration Multi-Channel Support

Currently, incidents are being sent to a single MS teams channel. We have different teams that manage different devices and alerts on those devices. The ability to set which incidents go to certain channels would allow our customer teams to choose...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Proactive Support for Long Running Threads

Hi Guys, I raised this ticket last night and as part of the investigation the team identified long running threads that they performed maintenance on, we noticed a very sharp increase in Dev Environment responsiveness and performance. It’s been an...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review