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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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Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
16 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

MSP are manually processing AWS MAP credits, and they need an automated way of achieving this.

AWS offers an extremly complex way of receiving credits back for workloads that are being migrated to Aws from onprem. This complexity is by design to make sure for most part that credits are never realized. This requires enormous tagging of workl...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Providing limited access of Targetprocess to our Clients (External Users)

BMM needs to provide login access to our external users/clients so they can view Bugs/DIRTS, change statuses, and add/view attachments without compromising other clients' data. Each client should only be able to view and edit information assigned ...
17 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Needs more information

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Project field to be mandatory for all tabs

Currently, the project field is only mandatory for the labor activity tab but would like to make this mandatory for all tabs.
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Update the OOB Planning Board to help compare assigned effort against capacity instead of velocity

Team PI planning board in TargetProcess compares assigned effort with Velocity, which is not helping users in planning (see attached screenshot) Ideally, it should compare the assigned effort against capacity. Issues: Velocity is editable field an...

ATUM dimensions should be available in TrueCost Explorer dimensions

Recently multiple ATUM dimensions were added as standard dimensions in our Cldy environment. It would be usefull if those dimensions were available in TrueCost explorer feature in the Insights tab. Enabling that would allow us to fully understand ...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 0 Submitted

MAG devices data need to be discovered using ITNM or ASM.It could be a new collector.

MAG devices data need to be discovered using ITNM or ASM.It could be a new collector.
17 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Submitted

To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review