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Support for nested Job Streams

We came to IWS from Automic. One feature that we miss is the ability to create nested Job Streams. For example: SCHEDULE WS#JS_CHILDON REQUEST:WS#CHILD1DOCOMMAND ... END SCHEDULE WS#JS_PARENTON RUNCYCLE RC1 "FREQ=DAILY"( AT 0900 ):WS#JOBADOCOMMAND...
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Under review

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
19 days ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 0 Under review

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
15 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Need a simple version of Copy command in Alert Viewer to only copy to clipboard what is shown in the view

Copy command embedded in the Raw tab of the Information section in Alert Viewer copies the raw json dump of the alert to clipboard. This involves a lot of data that is irrelevant to the user forcing them to remove the unnecessary information befor...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Mask Sensitive Data in URL - Tracking Data

We have a customer(Global Payments) use case scenario where our Instana shows the customer credit card information in the endpoint url, the customer is asking to hide/mask as its sensitive information.
23 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted