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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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Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

It takes around 5 seconds without indicator to load assigned groups for external user created through Frontdoor.

It's very confusing when we select a user and see no group. If we wait for a while then groups appears...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add non calendar Financial Year Date Range options

Apptio BI only has a concept of a calendar year at present. Typically customers want to report by Financial Years. Where the customer's financial Year is not the calendar year this is not currently possible hence a core use case cannot be met. Thi...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Turbonomic SSO users authorized by groups assigned at Turbonomic combined with SSO group

Actions can only be allowed to be executed by the team members resonsible for certain cloud accounts instead of all accounts in GCP, AWS and Azure. The OKTA SSO group is created at enterprise level for read only, or read/write, but not at cloud ac...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Please add Nutanix API v4 so Turbonomic be able to read the OS and Software from VMs

Clients are moving fast to Acropolis/Nutanix. Turbonomic is able to read the VMs, but cannot retrieve the OS nor the Software. We opened ticket TS019101805 where we received the following reply: "I spoke with engineering about the "Unknown" OS for...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Submitted

Countermeasure to prevent updating integration when RIA version is older than the latest integration installed

There is a known issue on Common integration when version on RIA is older than the integration version installed. Refer to TS018966154"We've noticed that within a workflow in the designer, when using the [+] to add an "Array Push", an error is thr...
6 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Need a batch update for Features to set the Planning Interval

When doing a PI planning event, I want to start with a list of prioritized features. Once I have identified which ones to include in the PI, I want to multi-select them and set them to the appropriate Planning interval.
6 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted