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Would like an API call to write to the alert details timeline

currently only users can add to the timeline via the UI. We would like to provide additional information from our impact automations and present it in this area. Please provide an API to do this.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

ITNM polls end devices using multiple SNMP credentials to monitor their subcomponents effectively.

We have Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) with multiple parts, such as firewalls and routers, that are monitored for their availability using ITNM's SNMP polling feature. Some newer models of these CPEs use NATed IPs, meaning their parts can only...
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Under review

Ability to clear all filters on a report and List views and dashboards.

Ability to clear all filters on a report and List views and dashboards. No way to clear all filters, must reset each filter one at a time for example Run vs Grow report: https://usibm.tpondemand.com/restui/board.aspx?#page=customreport/55560569709...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters / Reports 1 Under review

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Extending User Groups assignment to Alerting mechanisms in Anomaly Detection and Reporting

As User Groups release, customers are asking for a way to manage and assign alerts at scale. Assignment of alerts to users/user groups would be handled on the CLDY Admin role. For example, an ideal use case would be to set up an anomaly alert and ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Allow To Make Project Required Field For Team Creation

Please make it possible to set Project as a required field for creating a new Team.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review