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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Modelled Reports

As TBMA a lot of our time is consumed explaining to  our stakeholders via various means- reports, ppt slides, endless meetings, comms, diagrams how cost flows from the bottom of the model ie cost source through all hierarchies to the Service ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Future consideration

Improving authentication between Netcool and SNOW

Security is a major concern for all IT application today. As per recommended security standard, authentication between applications using basic authentication is creating a risk of exposing the username and password to hackers and they can use the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Send Data Validation Emails to Datalink Admins or Email list

Currently, in Datalink (Classic), there is a checkbox to validate the data.   This checkbox states that when validation fails, an email is sent to all users in the Datalink Admins role.    This is not true.   The emai...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Validate/Edit the policy and how to migrate the learnt policy from one env to other

CNEA - validating the machine policy learning, how to unlearn, and how to migrate the learnt policies between environments. If we give the task to validate the grouping to an SME, how does a business person validate the policy, able to edit, able ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Trigger automatic alerts in case of different figures across objects in the model

Trigger alerts in case of different figures across objects in the model without he need of TBMAs to go to the report checking the consistency of figures across Cost Source, IT Towers and Business Services!
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Planned for future release

Filter Level Security - All tabs

We are looking for the new feature to restrict certain filters created by ITP admins should not allow to modify them in tabs by CC owners
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Optimise Edgetype mapping on ServiceNow Observer

in ServiceNow Observer, there's need for a bit more intelligence in picking the right default edgetype for relationships .but there seem to be better alternatives Edgetypes available, some relationships are being set to "connectedTo" when there se...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration