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Easier view of "Carry Forward" jobs from the previous Plan

Integrating a Carried Forward indicator directly into the Monitor Job Streams and Orchestration Monitor views would fundamentally transform how operators manage day-to-day plan transitions. Currently, identifying job streams that failed to complet...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Show Read-only Variance Analysis for Forecast Plans in Final State

Currently Variance Analysis data and commentary is hidden when a forecast plan is moved to the Final state. A message appears saying "Variance Analysis is only available for Forecast plans in New and Open states.". Please change this to show the v...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Out of the box field for "Country"

I work with a lot of enterprises that do business globally. They would like to be able to view all of their infrastructure and resources in a country without needing to filter on every single region to do so (that would also be really hard to do)....
29 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Preview of Telemetry Data Instead of Needing to Download It

It would be great if I could preview what my telemetry data looks like to see which days I have telemetry data for or not instead of needing to download the csv file. 
29 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Add Usage Quantity Unit, Resource ID, and Usage Hours to Commitment Portfolio

The customer would like additional consumption-level visibility directly within the Commitment Portfolio/page. The requested fields are: Usage Quantity Unit Resource ID Usage Hours IBM's Commitment Table Basics documentation lists the fiel...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Enable Dynamic Application Maps for Pods, Namespaces, and Other Tagged Entities

Turbonomic currently allows Dynamic Application Maps to be generated based on VMs, but this capability is not available for other entity types such as Kubernetes Pods or Namespaces, even though these entities can also have labels/tags that can be ...
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Enhanced filtering capabilities in Commitment Portfolio

We would like to request enhanced filtering functionality within the Commitment Portfolio to improve usability. Support for IN and NOT IN Operators Enable users to filter records based on multiple values within a single filter condition. Multi-Sel...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Enable fan-out API orchestration to reliably handle large-volume Cloudability data requests

Large customers pulling cost, rightsizing, or container usage data across many accounts, dimensions, or date ranges often hit request size, timeout, or rate-limit constraints when calling the Cloudability API as a single request. Today, users have...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Support for running Instana agent as non privileged user on Kubernettes

There are the following restrictions on Kubernettes for running the Instana agent: Deployment with an operator or Helm chart, but with the following restrictions: Pods with: hostNetwork: true, hostPID: true, privileged: true, hostPath mounts no...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1

Add a composer "text editor" to DWC like window to customise Database objects

The introduction of an Integrated Text-Based Composer Window within the Workload Designer would merge the precision of code-based editing with the intuitiveness of the graphical interface. By adding a dedicated "launch Composer" button directly wi...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release