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User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

Provide option to enable or disable the "Total" row in the table widgets

The newly enhanced UI with the "total" row added for evey widget consumes a lot more space than it used to earlier and sometimes adds unnecessary spaces in between the data. It would be great if you can add the "total" row as an option, which the ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Kubernetes Metric Agent API Key Rotation

Cloudability includes functionality to showback Kubernettes cluster costs for GCP (GKE) and Azure (AKS). In order to gather the required metrics to calculate cluster costs, an agent must be installed on each cluster. As part of the agent installat...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

ORACLE TARGET SUPPORT

CLIENT: "I’d like the Oracle targets to be enhanced so a target can connect to multiple servers like the SQL targets can"
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Ability to create a filter on Contract Expiry Dates for xx number of months, instead of just a date

We want to have layouts and filters to be able to quickly see when contracts are expiring in xx number of months. At the moment, the filter is just entering in a date, which is not dynamic enough as you roll through months. Can this be uplifted to...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Restrict addition of Percentage columns in Apptio -Non-summable

We have an option to restrict row totals in Apptio for any field (By selecting Summable/Non-summable option in the formula ). But the same option is not working fine when the column total is happening. Percentage values cannot be summable, the cal...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release