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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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Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Under review

Visualize realized savings for actions taken in a specific timeframe

The realized savings widget shows savings for all actions taken historically, even when a specific timeframe is scoped. In order to properly report on the realized savings from a specific date, we only want to see the savings that start to accrue ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Import Latency Sensitivity VM setting for vmotion cost calculation

We have some workloads that are latency sensitive and suffer when vMotioned in short sequence. vCenter has VM settings called "latency sensitivity" and "vMotion stun time limit" that would be incredibly beneficial for these types of workloads for ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Ability to trigger an event rule using or. Job A abends OR Job B abends, trigger rule.

Currently we have to create 2 separate event rules to do this. If we are hoping for the exact same action based on 2 separate jobs' events, why not allow us to choose Job A OR Job B in the event?
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add in dropdown all entity states for global entities (cards).

Currently dropdown for cards filter shows Initial Planned and Final, for non-global includes all entity states, this option not available for global entities.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Under review

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
about 2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Provide manual sorting order for matchTokens values entered into a rule via the UI

matchTokens processing on event reception halts after the first resource matching a token is found. This provides an implicit ordering of token values to be entered from most-specific to most-generic. Achieving this is trivial when creating matchT...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Security: Provide Option to restrict Logins to one per user

Currently, AIOps does not prevent a single user from logging in multiple times using e.g. different browsers and/or different hosts (phone, laptop etc). This is desirable for many use-cases but violates a single-login-per-user policy. Many organis...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow General logging of Subworkflows to a Mainworkflow

At this time, when a mainworkflow is ran, the logging of any subworkflows is not logged the Mainworkflow's log. You can however assign the logs (or entire Subflow) to a variable and simply log that. This Idea would allow for a workflow designer to...
about 2 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Add Documentation Guide for Setting Up Azure CSP Billing Targets with Turbonomic

Many customers, particularly in markets like Norway, purchase Microsoft Azure through Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) such as Atea, Crayon, SoftwareOne. In these scenarios, the CSP often manages billing data, which can limit the customer’s direct ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review