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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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Allow Views defined within Widgets take priority over Page View

Allow the widget be configured with a hard view. This will allow to create multiple widgets within a page based on view filtering
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Message Bus Probe: token with kafka topic name in rulesfile

Today it is possible to add multiple topics for a given probe installation. However, there is no token available in the rulesfile to check from which topic a given message came from. This means, if I have a common kafka server with topics that req...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Planned for future release

ITP Expenses Assets tab: Date Picker for Purchase/In-Service Date

Idea: Adding the possibility to select Purchase Date & In-Service Date via a Date Picker rather than manually typing the date in ITP Expenses -> Assets tab. Why: current process of filling Date manually can cause confusion, as different us...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

On-Prem Deployment using AWS IAM User assume role for all accounts

Instead of creating, managing, and configuring hundreds of IAM users for large AWS organization footprints, allow the use of a single iam user access key and secret and then a role to assume in order to collect the other account details. Either pa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Under review

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Under review