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Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output message when issue "chkconfig on" command

"Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output error messages when issuing "chkconfig on" command. " When we issue "chkconfig on" command at TSA environment, we receive some messages from insserv shown as foll...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Request for a written description of detailed information in the TSA manuals

"Request for a written description of detailed information about relationship between OpState of resources and OpState of resource group, in Administrator's and User's Guide" This request comes from the PMR - 79859,6XM,760 (E54-z-79859)TSA V3.2.1 ...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

src stops too early at system shutdown / reboot

during shutdown a linux server we want to exclude the node using /etc/init.d/rcx.. scripts but src was killed as soon as shutdown begins so we have no chance to stop our applications before.
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 5 Not under consideration

Create IBM Cloud Functionality with TSAMP

TSAMP is currently not supported to run and installed on IBM Cloud.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Future consideration

Improve analysis abilites in case of malfunction

TSAMP is starting and stopping configured resources, depending on relationships, votes, requests and internal states. There are several cases, when it is hard or impossible to understand the decided behaviour. At this situations we (TSA-Admins and...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

Resource state at node start time

The original state of a resource (when a node first comes online or a domain comes online) is treated differently to a monitor command returning 0 (unknown) or a monitor timing out.With this running resources are stopped, whenthere is a dependency...
about 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration