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Azure Credentialing Validator

During Azure credentialing, customers may miss the standard role required for commitment data—Enrollment Reader for EA or Billing Reader for MCA. Credentialing can still show as successful and cost data may continue to flow because of exports perm...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Integration Operations Dashboard

Request for a centralized administration experience that enables integration owners to monitor project coverage, identify exceptions, assess sync health, and act on data-quality issues from a single view.
28 days ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Submitted

Add "Tokens" as a Dedicated Usage Quantity Unit for AI Consumption

As AI and Generative AI usage becomes increasingly important for cost management and reporting, customers would benefit from a dedicated Tokens Usage Quantity Unit rather than representing token consumption using the generic Count unit. Using a sp...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Correct Usage Quantity Unit Values to Match Actual Usage Measurements

Certain cloud services expose Usage Quantity Unit values that do not align with the actual unit represented by the Usage Quantity metric. For example, some GCP Compute usage records display a Usage Quantity Unit of Hours, while the corresponding U...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Would like an auto refresh or option to manually refresh the plan list so that when creating a forecast plan, it shows up in the list without needing to refresh entire browser session.

Currently, when creating a Forecast plan, it displays this message:         AWSUI0840I The creation of the plan "ForecastPlan2026_09_15" has been started and is running in the background. To verify that the plan has be...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Option to encode or not to encode the url before it is launched from the Client-side action.

Please allow an option to not encode a url. It would default to encode. It can provide a security warning if it is not encoded. Description:If a field has an encoded URL in it and we do not want the Client-side Automations Action to encode the fie...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Disable Advanced Feature Check

Enable to a toggle to stop accounts from showing errors on their Advanced Features status on Vendor Credentials. In the event that an account can't/won't be enabled, this would allow both the 'Account Status' banner and the Credentials Page to sho...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Propose the creation of contextual menus within the Incident section of Watson AIOps to manage grouped incidents, similar to existing capabilities for individual alerts.

Currently, Watson AIOps allows specific actions to be executed through contextual menus within individual alerts. However, this capability does not exist in the Incident section, where multiple related alerts are grouped into a single incident. Th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release