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Node Pool SKU Optimization for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Turbonomic should analyze Azure Kubernetes Service node pools and recommend the optimal VM SKU for each pool—for example, moving from E32 to E16 or D8 to D4—while preserving the existing number of nodes. Recommendations should account for: CPU an...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Submitted

Allow Home > Explore to become a default landing page for users instead of a single dashboard

Cloudability admins and users can benefit from this.  It'll help with quick provisioning and end users finding quick information regarding their approved views.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

MessageBus probe - Support API Token/Key method for authentication

The IBM Netcool MessageBus Probe currently supports Basic Authentication for securing inbound API/Webhook connections. While functional, Basic Authentication presents several operational and security challenges, particularly in multi-tenant and en...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

A Report Showcasing Visibility Formulae of Various Buttons and Dashboards within a Project

Presently, a user has to navigate to a dashboard button, select the button, and then choose Report -> Visibility to see the component visibility set based on keywords in the user roles. Need to find a way to see this via a report across all the...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Add a Dry-Run Mode for SevOne Upgrades

Introduce a --dry-run mode that executes the complete upgrade validation and pre-check workflow without modifying the system or starting the upgrade. The dry run should validate: Installer archive integrity and checksum Required files, permission...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

Upgrade Precheck Hardening: Detecting Corrupted Installers, Configuration Drift, and Container Image Failures Before Deployment

Problem During a recent SevOne upgrade, the installation failed because of multiple issues that were not detected before execution: Corrupted nms-installer.tar files on appliances Residual files from a previous 7.2.7 upgrade sshd_config incompati...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect

Having a Mapping of Compute Instances & attached volumes will help us avoid the manual work

Hi team, Having a Mapping of Compute Instances with their corresponding Storage volumes will help us avoid the manual work. As a Finops team, we regularly get requests asking for the cost impact of decommissioning set of servers. Since Instance Co...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 3 Submitted

Resource ID Tracking in Cloudability ROI

Currently, Cloudability tracks Azure Virtual Machines using the Resource Name as the unique identifier, which causes lineage breaks when a VM is terminated and recreated under a new Resource ID. This limitation prevents customers from validating R...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Default currency preferences for all end customer

Currently, when default currency settings are independent at each end customer environment level. customer or support has to manually modify currency settings and also a wait time of 24 hrs for the change to be  reflected across the applicati...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Under review

Enable changing the application name in the JDBC connection.

Ability to modify the application name in the JDBC connection within the DB2 agent configuration.The agent establishes a JDBC connection to DB2 using the default application name "DB2JCCAPLICATION"; however, the client wishes to identify each conn...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review