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Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Under review

Enable configurable relationship types

Currently, a static list of possible relationship types exist as either Inbound or Outbound: Dependency, Blocker, Relation, Link or Duplicate. It would be value-add to allow removing relation types, renaming relation types, or adding relation type...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
4 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
7 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Impact out of the box Netcool Impact MWM check completion flag needed

Suppressed alerts are falsely forwarded to upstream systems like event-automation as we cant explicitly filter out 'MWM Processed' alerts.
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Adjustable lookback period for rightsizing recommendations is required.

Currently only 2 options for lookback period are available: 1. 10 day 2. 30 day I want lookback period to be adjustable up to 90 days, as 90 days sufficiently account for the seasonality in workload utilisation.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

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...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted