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UI & User Experience

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Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Exclude target category that has no associated rows from the Target Type Filter

In Target Configuration page, it seems we have all target categories included in the target type filter. For Azure, the target type shall be Azure Service Principal, or Azure Subscription. So when selecting Azure, there is no result returned. Disc...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Confirmation Dialog Box Settings

We would like for there to be a confirmation dialog box upon clicking the 'Execute Action' button. We understand that there is by default, but it can disabled via user preference. We would prefer for Site Administrators to be able to configure the...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Batch operations

Hi, it would be very useful if it would be possible to do batch operations in the turbonomic ui. For example batch deletion, or batch creation of different things i.e Groups.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Gamify Savings in Turbonomic to encourage competition.

Some of the biggest hurdles in achieving efficiency savings in Turbonomic is competing priorities. Some of the successes at companies to achieve Turbo driven savings, is to create a competitive game between departments and/or app teams on savings....
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Plot historical percentile values in "Prove It" UI when actions are taken

Today, using VM resize actions as an example, we only show the percentile value based on the current capacity of the resource. When customers take an action to either resize up or resize down to bring the percentile back into its desired state, th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration