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Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
about 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to cancel the export and download of reports

Hello, Enhance feature to cancel the preparation and download of a report to avoid the usage of resources and download large files to manage, when the filters were not properly selected. Thank you
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Ability to add percentage column in allocation table reports to understand the allocated percentage of each item.

As of today, we can create a report taking a cost metric as Cost(amortized) or Cost (Total) for a selected dimensions to list all items under the dimensions with their allocated cost. Requirement is to have an option to also add a column which is ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Dashboard to show count of APs based on availability / Alerting policy alerts

The idea is to have a dashboard on DI, which, for a particular Device Group, can count the APs under it, and show the count of APs based on 1. Availability [ Total count of APs under the device group, Count of Available and Unavailable APs ]. 2. A...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pre-Purchase Plan

It is a different kind of commitment that should also be visible in Cloudability.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Add Resources in Join Dependencies - IWA 10.1

Hello We are using IWA 10.1 and want to create JST using more than 40 resources. The composer add command returns the message AWSJOM138E The dependencies defined for job or job stream "******GVC010VERA" are incorrect because they would give a tota...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Network Diagram type functionality to Maps visualizations

Customer is requesting, in addition to the "canvas" and "maps" type of visualization for map device/object data and metrics, to add a network diagram type visualization with the ability to use standard icons for network elements (Routers/Switches ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration