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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...
6 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

Entity name without prefix and should be usable in relationship building in ASM

Entity name without prefix and should be usable in relationship building in ASM
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 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

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

add support for non-LACP link aggregation

For device discovery when CDP and LLDP are disabled, add support for non-LACP link aggregation. in order to obtain all required link-layer data like link aggregation membership data obtained at Layer 2
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 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

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration