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Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Needs more information

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache & Elastisearch

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache and Elasticsearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for these services to help optimize...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Needs more information

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Filtering on tickets within ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps

When defining a ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps, in the connection form it's possible to select the ticket type (incident, change request, ...), but it's not possible to further filter the ticket of same type (for example based on specific fiel...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support Fortigate VDOM-aware discovery and unidirectional LLDP stitching in ITNM

Currently ITNM discovery for Fortinet Fortigate firewalls does not fully work as expected. The product does not correctly recognize VDOM contexts, which results in duplicate or incorrect interface IP addresses (extra octet, e.g. 10.76.194.58.14). ...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration