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Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period ov...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0

Be able to sort lists/views etc on the left hand pane

It would be useful to be able to sort items on the left hand pane by alpha order or create date, creator, etc.. This should be able to be done on the main level or within a folder. This would make it easier to find items in the left hand pane sprawl.
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Have PNG export reflect what is shown on the screen

Export: Is there any plan to have “export to PNG” actually reflect what is showing on the screen for a report – for example if you exclude something on the screen also have it excluded from the exported picture. Is there any plan to be able to exp...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Add Comments to Price Book Rules

Adding comments to price book rules would make it easier to track the intended effects of each price book rule along with changes and adjustments made over time.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS.

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS similar to what is shipped along with the product for DB2 database.
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Needs more information

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration