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Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 3 Functionality already exists

Enforce Message bus probe REST API Listener to send HSTS response header

Currently the web server service for REST API listener of the message bus probe does not enforce sending HSTS header to clients as required in RFC xxx. This has been detected as an security issue at client Datev during a pentest and prevents us fr...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Situation Update Forwarder (SUF) requires the installation of old libraries

Customer would like IBM to update the SUF component to use libraries that are currently available as part of the operating system such as SLES15 (or RHEL8). For example, neither libstdc++.so.5 nor libstdc++33 is available in the Legacy Module for ...
10 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

When Turbo lists “vCenter” as the source, I would like the specific vCenter noted – similar to how it lists cloud accounts.

When having multiple vCenter's this will help the client specifically identify which vCenter Turbo is recommending actions for.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
over 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Ability to check for Integration updates through a proxy

Simple one: Include functionality in the API pod such that it is able to check for updates from Automation Library (or S3) through a proxy. Right now only the NodeJS and Worker pods can do this it seems, but it being able to do it from the API wou...
10 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

View Only Contracts for Cost Center Managers

We need the ability to have cost center owners have View Only access to their contracts tab. Only specific teammates within ITP edit for IT and not the owners of the cost centers. @Nitin Ningaiah @Greg Hahn @Bob Kerhin @Sally Garski @Dina Buszkiew...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists