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Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TWS FTA Deploy on IBM Storage Ceph

Background With the migration from Physical server to VM, our previous HA architecture which relied on SAN storage is no longer applicable.It cannot do swing over to change from Node 1 to another Node 2 in VM.Also, vMotion if having issue on hardw...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ADM disable load of actuals into closed months

The possibility to disable load of actuals into closed months can prevent loss of actuals that is currently happening by design in 2 different ways:    1. As Cost Object Ref Data is taken from last Period of CT that is open AND at th...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section

This is a request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section: 1. Indefinite Budget Duration: Currently, the maximum budget duration is 18 months. We request an option to set budgets for an indefinite period, similar to AWS Bu...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Dashboard to show count of APs based on availability / Alerting policy alerts

The idea is to have a dashboard on DI, which, for a particular Device Group, can count the APs under it, and show the count of APs based on 1. Availability [ Total count of APs under the device group, Count of Available and Unavailable APs ]. 2. A...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration