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The same underlying date field is exposed under different names in Apptio Targetprocess Request Entity —“Completion Date” in the UI, “Finished” in lists, and “EndDate” in filters—and this inconsistency is by design and not currently configurable.

Why it’s useful Clarifies that the naming inconsistency is out‑of‑the‑box behavior, not a misconfiguration by your team. Prevents wasted effort trying to rename or standardize fields that cannot be unified today. Establishes the correct field name...
1 day ago in Targetprocess / User Experience Submitted

Need broader insight into rightsizing opportunities

There are a lot of opportunities to save that Cloudability does not inform users about. Some of them are difficult to find without collecting information, merging data, comparing options. This is the work Cloudability does for EC2, RDS, etc. Why n...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Add effective rate and 30 day options to rightsize widgets

Current rightsize widgets are limited to 10 day cash values. I don't imagine many Cloudability customers do not have private pricing or reservations. Effective rate is the only useful metric for my organization and it's not an option. It would be ...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Include allocation tag or bm values in rightsize reports

Current rightsizing reports rely heavily on the use of view filters to isolate and identify the workload represented. I've worked for a couple of organizations as a FinOps expert and when I meet with teams it is not to look at one workload at a ti...
about 11 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

API Endpoint for Tag & Labels

There are currently API Endpoints for Business Mapping, Business Metrics, Users management, etc, but Tags & Labels can only be actioned via the UI. This means we are unable to mirror the Production and Test environments quickly and systematica...
about 11 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Filter Metric and Dimension Availability based on User Credential

The volume of available metrics and dimension can be overwhelming for the average user, who likely need just a small subset. For example, its possible to have 6+ different cost metrics available to use in reporting - it's likely users should just ...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Watson Runbook Automation (RBA) Email Notification Option

Require the OOTB email notification for success or failure or the status of Runbook automation execution. It helps if the feature is working or not. Otherwise, every time we need to login to the GUI and verify the history of the automation trigger...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Add filtering capabilities to the Activity Menu on the Alerts Information page to allow users to easily refine system and user -generated activity messages by type, source, severity, and time.

On the Alerts Information page, the Activity Menu currently displays all system-generated and user-generated messages in a single, continuous, unfiltered view. As alert activity increases across environments, this consolidated feed becomes difficu...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Improve the Alert Contextual Menu user interface by adding scroll support, proper layout structure, and clear navigation cues so users can easily view and navigate all available filter options.

In the Alert Contextual Menu, the list of available filter options does not display a scroll bar and lacks proper indentation or visual navigation cues between sections or pages. As a result, only a subset of available filters is visible at any gi...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Add Pagination to the API call that loads lists of external groups within IBM Turbonomic

After creating 3k + external scoped user groups via a script. We are unable to reliably work in the UI as it takes up to 15-20 seconds for the list of groups to display and often displays the unresponsive pop up in the browser. As a general note i...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted