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Ability to Share Individual Dashboard Widgets in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability dashboards do not support sharing individual widgets. Users are required to share the entire dashboard, even when they intend to collaborate on or distribute insights from a single visualization. While reports can be shared...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Platform feature flags should be turned on by default (VMware, Power HMC, etc.)

The feature flags to enable capabilities like VMware, Power HMC, zHMC, SAP, etc. should be enabled by default. By not enabling these, we drive up our support costs and drive down customer satisfaction. Now, we do need to think about the best way t...
6 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Support GCP AlloyDB

Please support GCP AlloyDB, which is a competitor to AWS RDS.
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS Future consideration

Line Item Filters: Allow pre-filtering currency based on location

We use location as country/legal entity. Our planning in local currency needs to ensure that all countries only plan in their respective local currencies. e.g. USA only plans in USD, Spain only in EUR, China only in CNY. Current Currency filter re...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Reintroduce deprecated Topology widget layouts in SevOne Data Insight

In earlier versions of SevOne Data Insight, the Topology widget supported multiple layout options, including Organic, Sequential, Lens, Standard, Structural, and Tweak. These layouts provided flexibility in visualizing network maps in a structured...
15 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Improve Export Reports from Instana

Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
17 days ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

Turbonomic parking notifications

Idea split out from original TURBO-I-1335 There is no notification option for Parking VMs. If any Parking VM fails to start or stop, the system should send a notification to the support team.This feature is important to ensure timely action and av...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Future consideration

API endpoint to manage Dashboards

As Cloudability admin I would like to be able to retrieve, create, update and delete cloudability dashboards programmatically so I can keep track of changes to these in a infrastructure as code fashion.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

VM Consumption Data - Azure dashboard

even though the total cost for february in CLDY matches the one from the extract provided by client for the same month, the naming convention on the dashboard in azure is different from the one provided on the billing exports. Billing exports uses...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Variance Analysis on higher level in Apptio Planning

Variance Analysis functionality in IT Planning appears to be a very valuable feature from our perspective which can clearly improve efficiency and consistency. The main limitation we see at the moment is that the drivers can only be applied on cos...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration