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Provide SSL connections via the DB2 Connector in CP4AIOPs running on OCP

SSL connection for DB2 connector allows secure connections to DB2 from CP4AIOps. This will benefit customers who have a secure zone implemented in their environment.
8 minutes ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Add a field to the API and UI to inform consumers if cost saving is using custom prices or falling back on retail prices

Currently there is no transparency around which price is being used which results in misreporting when we roll up the potentials saves to a higher Business Mapping level. The reality is that all of our services should match to a custom price, so t...
3 minutes ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Enhance Cloud Visibility: Fetch VPC ID and VPC Name against VPC Services

Description: As an Apptio user, I'm facing challenges in fetching VPC ID and VPC name against VPC services. Currently, Apptio doesn't provide a straightforward way to retrieve these details, making it difficult to gain comprehensive visibility int...
4 minutes ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Normalized AI Cost Model visibility in Cloudability (Reduce Noise from AI Model Versions)

Nestle and other customers are requesting improved visibility into AI-related cloud spend in Cloudability, as current AI service and item descriptions introduce a high level of noise when used in graphs and reports. AI costs today appear as many n...
3 minutes ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability Submitted

RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput

Vertex AI spend is increasing and there is a need to optimize it. Provisioned Throughput commitments offer a major discount off on-demand: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/provisioned-throughput-on-vertex-ai
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Cross platform disaster recovery support

Currently there is limitation of cross platform CP4AIOPS backup/restore, based on our email conversation with Neil Boyette (IBM) "In our current release for DR, we support Backup & Restore. When you use OCP then for Backup/Restore you can use ...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Ability to disable fields

Description Introduce a capability that allows administrators to disable custom fields without deleting them. A disabled field would be fully inactive across the platform, preserving historical data while preventing future use through the UI, view...
about 18 hours ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

Set default cost basis for Rightsizing Explorer

Now that there is support for both Effective and On-Demand cost bases in Rightsizing Explorer, I would like to be able to the default cost basis on the Default Cost Metrics Preferences page.
about 18 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Capability to not limit the charts grouping output to max 50 items

Following up on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000AoBsAQAV/charts-grouping-limiting-the-output-to-max-50-items?language=en_US Currently, when trying to view the nodes from one cluster only (so for sure there will be less than 10k of t...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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