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New Workstation option to ignore for plan generation, but still allow manual submits

Currently, Workstations have the IGNORE option which blocks job streams from being scheduled into the plan. We have a need where we want to block job streams from being scheduled into the plan but still allow manual submission. Currently, our appr...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Need to have support for Power9

The fact a large amount of customers are likely to purchase power 9 extended support, so we are potentally missing out on a large customer base to use the product
about 2 months ago in Concert 1 Submitted

SyncAwsEc2Volume: Attached and Unattached time

Business Case We are requesting a Cloudability enhancement to expose attached time and unattached time for EC2Volume resources. Today, storage cost visibility shows what we are spending, but not how long a volume was actually in use versus sitting...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Ability to use the same color in bar chart more than once; expansion of the color spec box to accommodate this idea

This is useful when many records in a bar chart/or any type of graphical representation needs to use the same color, it provides the ability to visually see data grouped using color, it provides a visual representation of like items, for example i...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Commitment Overview Support for Azure

Hello Team, Currently, the Service Type section within the Overview tab supports AWS services. It would be valuable to extend this capability to include Azure services as well. Adding Azure service visibility would provide a more comprehensive mul...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

AIOps to train over time on user actions/behaviors on events and incidents that can then be used for triage and resolution

AIOps over time would observe user actions on events and incidents. It would then: propose recommended next steps highlight previous actions taken self heal with a vetted solution This would assist in the triaging of alerts and possibly reduce inc...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Ability to filter the rows with errors in Editable table

Currently, users input data into editable tables and often rely on the ‘Upload’ functionality for bulk data loads. However, when there is any error in data loaded, the portal does not provide a consolidated or prominent view of these issues. Inste...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Editable Tables 0 Submitted

Be able to more easily rename a custom field in all locations

I just did an exercise in renaming hundreds of fields from the budgeting solution (For Example Proposed > Forecast) so that terms would match across all systems. It would be great if this functionality was easier, if the name was changed it cha...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 8 Future consideration