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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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Visual Encoding: apply color to 1st, 2nd and 4th levels / rows / lanes of hierarchy in Lists

As for now only cards are colored. It would be useful to color 1st and 2nd level hierarchy as well.
about 10 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Ability to adjust the fiscal year & quarters when the business's fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year

The company I'm with Kroger, but I've worked for other companies who's fiscal year didn't follow the calendar year. Because of that Apptio BI and even Cloudability Reports should have the ability to adjust those dates to what suits the company. It...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Realtime integration with SQL Db

We have an internal system that holds and updates ART structure data and resource data. It seems like there is some integration setup with Apptio one where we copy the data from our SQL DB and place it in Apptio One. Then By some Integrations proc...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Under review

Add Instance type and family dimensions to the IBMC data

We don't see this data for IBMC today, but it's essential for monitoring and managing the resources.We want to create a report for AI / GPU usage by flavor, but we can't because we don't have any data on the instance that can help with this.This i...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Resource Inventory 1 Submitted

Support for UPN Configuration for SSO Login

Customer want to have the Apptio side utilize UPN instead of email address. This is because Customer have a subset of users that log in with a UPN that doesn't match their primary email address, and they cannot log into cloudability.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add GPU Utilization metrics in Cloudability

We have a subscription owner whose application uses only N-type VMs (GPU-Optimized VMs). They mentioned that the relevant metric for them is GPU utilization. However, GPU utilization is not currently available as a metric in Cloudability. In the f...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Recursive Maintenance Entry Every During Off Business Hours

We have a requirement to add maintenance entry using IBM Netcool Impact Maintenance Window Management. We have recursive option, but it is not fulfilling our requirement in single entry. If we need to add the maintenance for the entire week from 9...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration