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Versioning function

It would be great, if developer could see, immediately and without checking out the table, the table version including FROM date info and version history.
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

The Device Manager lacks a column to display the last SNMP working date

The Device Manager includes a column that displays the SNMP working status as either "Yes" or "No." It's crucial to know the duration since SNMP became unreachable when it is not working. It would be beneficial to add an additional column that ind...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 5 Future consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Needs more information

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Enable the "Apply Filters Dependency" for dashboard filters.

Currently, the dashboard filters do not apply filter dependencies, which forces user to type their options in the filters and sometime when the list expands beyond 150, it doesn't even appear.  Enabling this will elevate the user expereince....
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Filters 2 Future consideration