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Unable to run custom actions on parent alarm but can run OOB actions

Not able to run custom actions on parent alarm . OOB actions are working fine but not the custom actions .
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Need SSH support for kex algorithm diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

We recently encountered an issue where ITNM is not support the kex algorithm supported by the device we want to interrogate.
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Allow CP4AIOPs connections/integrations to be created via the automation (CRD via ArgoCD)

Bell is trying to completely automate Install and deployment of Cp4AIOPs. They are also looking to automate the integrations from CP4AIOPs to other input/output systems. It appears that at the moment adding new Integrations to CP4AIOPs is only pos...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
over 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 2 Future consideration

Direct Chronosphere Connector for Utilization Data (Avoid Broad GCP Permissions)

Problem Statement: To enable GCP commitment tracking in Cloudability, "Advanced Credentials" are currently required. However, the associated script requires two high-level permissions that violate Yahoo’s security policies: storage.buckets.list: E...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Needs more information

Flexible Visualization of Budget Variance Details

CFP (Cloud Financial Planning) lacks a good way to visualize the Budget Variance Details. Ideally, all dimensions of the plan should be selectable / Filtrable to construct a chart - they are currently in the Table, but to visualize it the only opt...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Needs more information

To allow Kubeturbo to send data to more than one Turbonomic backend server

When migrating Turbonomic, customers often run both the new and old instances in parallel to validate that the new server is functioning correctly. This allows them to compare results side by side. However, the current Kubeturbo implementation onl...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Needs more information