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Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Forward slots from event custom fields as part of the body when using a outgoing webhook to forward incidents to a external event management tool

When forwarding events via the outgoing webhook integration to an external event management tool (BMC Truesight Operations Manager) i.e. CPU, Filesystem, swap space etc. We only see event info and resource affected slots passed with the body. Key ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 4 Not under consideration

Read Only Rights on maintenance windows

Hello As mentioned in ticket TS013910126, I want to give READ ONLY rights on maintenance windows, to some users. Currently we can only grant read/write permissions.Best regards
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Multicloud Manager supports helm v3, not only helm v2.

Now I feel Multicloud Manager can deploy and manage lifecycle remote cluster's Application only from helm v2 chart. My potential customer, OMRON (large precision equipment manufacturer in Japan), expect they can deploy and manage their helm v3 cha...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Access to Maintenance Mode via API

As of now in IBM Watson, we don't an option to access Maintenance Window via API.. its accessible only via the DASH console so we need an option to access Maintenance Mode via API to invoke it in the script.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration