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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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Add Additional Custom "Employee Type" Values for Labor

As a TBMA supporting a broad implementation of IT Planning to other orgs, I would like to be able to allocate Labor using employee type values beyond "Internal" and "External". We have other categories/subcategories of resources that need to be al...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Identify environment Cloudability email generated from

Case #TS017536579 - Cloudability currently can't indicate on generated email reports, what environment it is coming from. If customer has sandbox and production, can't tell what environment report was generated from.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

All configuration items involving Alerts should allow the usage of all fields from the Alert schema including custom fields

AIOps enables the extension of the alert schema with custom fields and these should be able to be used in the configuration of the system. This would include: In the "Add Menu Item" dialogue All fields should show in the list of columns selectable...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Consistent Resizing for Storage

Extend the concept of consistent sizing for grouped servers to storage on the grouped servers. For instance, if i have servers in a cluster or servers that have been grouped together via tagging and rule, if there is a recommendation for storage, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Customized landing pages based on Personas

I would need to have different landing pages (reports) customized to each Persona in Front Door. Thus, everyone would land on a set of reports tailored to their use cases.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration