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vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Needs more information

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Needs more information

change of column from Azure CSP cost report for customer price

We have an environment where the end customer pricing is already configured in Azure CSP. The Azure cost exports contain a column AX "paygCostInBillingCurrency" with the end customer pricing. Cloudability currently only uses the column AU "costInB...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Needs more information

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
3 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

Add a possibility to set pre-filter in the inner list of detailed view

Pre-filter would increase the visbility in the inner lists add field for the accounts with many entities and potentially leads to lower amount of mistakenly added entities.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Needs more information

Include Events and Status data in Apptio BI

Current the Events and Status features do not allow you to easily find the data without exporting to excel and this data is not available in BI. It would be good to add features like group and filter to these reports but also to use in the BI reports
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Needs more information

NetApp AFF-A700 support

Telefonica has lot of NetApp AFF-A700 models, which is specifically excluded in the documentation (NetApp target).https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.15.0?topic=targets-netapp
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Needs more information