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Commitment Support for Azure Database for MySQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the MySQL Database server. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look a...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Multiple sorts in Apptio BI tables

In Apptio BI, the current table visualization allows sorting by only one column at a time. The requested enhancement is to enable multi-column sorting. For example, in a table with three columns—Account Name, Service Name, and Cost Total—users sho...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Create BULK ADD nodes option for Status Maps in NMS

Status Maps are limited by not being able to add nodes from a spreadsheet or other file format: I have a spreadsheet with some 400 objects listed, together with a name for each object. I want to create a Status Map (just a grid with each of the no...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team? Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that would allo...
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Future consideration

SevOne NPM should support netflow connection over TCP.

TCP is more secure and more reliable than UDP. As such, SevOne NPM should be able to support incoming netflow traffic over TCP in order to stay up to date with standards and customer expectations.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML) should support replication of secondary tables

The gateway and probe for message bus is getting more and more important on all customer sites to receive alerts and to transfer ObjectServer data to external customer systems. Most customer implementations contain secondary tables which hold diff...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Enhance Report Deletion Message to Display Dependent Linked Report Names

When a user tries to delete a report on DI, and if that report is used in linking from some other report, we get the below message "The following reports cannot be deleted because they are being used in a linking relationship. To delete them you m...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration