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Ability to subscribe to report with preconfigured filters

We have some generic reports. We would like to be able to offer users the ability to subscribe to those reports, but where they select the filters identifying the parts of the dataset that are of interest to them (and we have a single report to ma...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

Support for GMAIL with the Netcool Email Probe. I was told that it is not currently supported.

We use GMAIL email as our corporate email service and would like to use the email probe to parse incoming mail to create events from email that we can use for correlation with Customer equipment events and use with AIOPS.
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Instana SaaS hosted in Azure + Azure Marketplace offering

In Norway as for rest of Scandinavia the main public cloud is Azure. Azure has datacenters in Norway and Sweden, and most clients prefer to host SaaS applications there. Offering Instana SaaS in Azure in Europe would skip questions as mostly all o...
4 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Configure SSO through UI for all customers

Today configuring SSO involves editing CR's, etc which will always lead to mistakes and for SaaS customers opening support tickets which in turn need SRE involvement to accomplish the task. On-prem, it involves user error. My idea here is to be ab...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

We want use mashup to populate a new field in the quick add form based on selection of values of another field which is already existing in the form.

We want use mashup to populate a new field in the quick add form based on selection of values of another field which is already existing in the form. In the screenshot attached, when "WOTF" value is selected from the sourcing mechanism (Existing f...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted