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add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Provide full list of images used for each version of CP4AIOps

I am submitting this request on behalf of Bank of America. Every time IBM development delivers a new version of NOI or Cloud Pak for AIOps, BofA is required to download the images into their internal Artifactory to run security scans on those imag...
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Using Orchestration Queries (OQL) from Orchestration Command Line Interface (OCLI)

OQL is a powerful language to monitor scheduling objects both in the plan and model. It's usage with the Orchestration Monitor and REST API v2 allows customers to monitor and control scheduling objects today. Most customers control IWS using scrip...
13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Colour (color) control in chart-type widgets

We are finding that some users are becoming confused with the colours in chart-type widgets in Cloudability Dashboards, particularly when tracking differing timelines. I have attached an example where for a given timeline, AWS ECS was the primary ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration