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Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Support more than one viewing currency per environment

Today, for multi-currency configuration, Cloudability can only support one specified currency per environment. Many of our customers are global entities and have a need to display cloud cost data in the local currency of their sites or offices. Fo...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' requirement to be set for accounts, without breaking functionallity of IWS application and components.

In our organization providing accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our security requirements. Installing the product with the options set is OK but we look for that option ...
30 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.

Our goal is to limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

API for threshold creation and query

Hi Team whatever in Restful API v2 or v3, we can see there are lack of useful API to query and create the threshold for device Pain point: In API v2, we can only see an API to fetch all metric threshold, it can't fetch by device ID. If the number ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
6 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

WebGUI runwaapi.sh Password Parameter uncrypted

runwaapi.sh from WEGGUI has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the process table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists