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New text box for Validation and Automation Rules

The Validation and Automation Rules, need a note box. Since the Description is really the title, there is a need for a text box for general notes. Nothing fancy, just a field to put notes in that you don’t want in the Description box.
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 5 Future consideration

Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
6 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Please add the effective cost in the downloaded file for executed actions (widget)

We are seeing the effective cost in the UI, however when the report / details are downloaded to in excel format, it contains the on-demand cost rather than the effective cost.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Expose View Details to Non Admins

We would like our end users to have visibility into how a View is created, but without giving them rights to create/edit views. This will empower them to fully understand how a view is defined. We should give read-only access to View tab to non-ad...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Migrating catalogues from 9.5 to 10.1.

There's no documented procedure for migrating catalogs from 9.5 to 10.1 , need one to ensure migration goes smoothly.With requirements , plugins (if needed etc,).
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Insights on usage

It would be nice to have some tracking information regarding the usage of some views/reports/dashboards/boards. Every so often, we review the left navigation in ATP and try to minimize the length of it. Knowing that views are used a lot vs. never ...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration