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Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enhanced Budget Variance Functionality in CFP

We would like to propose an enhancement in CFP to align the Budget Variance Details tab with the functionality currently available in the Forecast Variance Details tab. Specifically, we request that the same dimensions used when creating plans in ...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 1

Indicate the specific policy that blocks an action to increase understanding and confidence about the actions

The Problem Lack of visibility into which policy is blocking an action generates several negative effects: Loss of operational traceabilityUsers don't know if the action was blocked by: A disabled automation policy A group with restricted scope A ...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Ability to have audit logs to review which user added/updated/deleted policies, and what the changes were

Ability to have audit logs to review which user added/updated/deleted policies, and what the changes were
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Updating monthly amounts in the Forecast

When you hit the pencil to edit a forecast and then type your information into the month you want to change, the total doesnt change until after you close out. Can it instead update immediately so that you can see your new total. This is especiall...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Quarterly forecasts should not auto calculate unless you physically put a new number in that field

If you put different dollar amounts in Jul, Aug and Sep but then accidentally click in the Q3 cell, it automatically totals those three months and then peanut butter spreads the average erasing your custom amounts! This function should only work i...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Updating Alerts

Keep alerts up to date is incredibly painful. People come and go and roles change. The process to ensure alerts are going to the right key stakeholders is incredibly painful. I have several suggestions. Option 1. Ability to keep alerts automatical...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration