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Export All should use a fixed column order, and not vary with my Layout

The current functionality is confusing and non-intuitive, and interferes with many assumptions about how process flow should work. "Export All" should be a trustworthy 'I don't know what I need, give me everything' button that I can drp into Excel...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Rename "Rate of Resize" options

At the policies, we have in some of them the option of "Rate of Resize" with three options: 1, 2 and 3. The problem is the customer is looking at these numbers as the multiplier to the increments and not the level itself. We should rename to a bet...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Use Billing Data for Savings Widget Calculations

The Savings Widget currently bases its savings potential on CSP list prices. However, since most organizations have discounted rates per SKU, the projected savings amounts may not reflect actual cost reductions. Request is to integrate billing dat...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.

Our goal is to limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

ability to send alerts to multiple stakeholders/end users

ability to send alerts to multiple stakeholders/end users using the e-mail alerts button or for any budget compliance alerts or anomaly alerting.
21 days ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted