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Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 6 Planned for future release

Automating actuals update within a plan

We’re updating Planning data daily via this method: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/apptio-commercial/planning-standard/saas?topic=costing-import-baseline-plans-from-apptio Is there a way to automate this? Seems kinda silly to make a human press a but...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Limited Optimization Coverage

Optimization recommendations are currently available mainly for EC2, EC2-Other, S3, RDS, Lambda, Redshift and Elastic IP.No optimization insights are available for EKS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, EFS, DynamoDB, MSK, Load Balancers, AI services and o...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Needs more information

Merge contents of standard tables based on editable tables

When merging a branch into the trunk, editable tables and their contents are merged, but any standard tables using the editable table as the source are not updated with the new contents from the branch. If you have made updates in the branch to th...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Editable Tables 0 Submitted

Restrict Scoped Users from viewing and editing all parking policies

Currently today, a user can create parking policies for just their accounts, which is great But the user can also view and edit ALL existing parking policies, even ones that are not associated with their scope. When they go to edit one of the poli...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Improvement in the API for Efficient Pagination and Enhanced Data Precision

Currently, we are facing challenges in data extraction via the API due to excessive granularity and technical limitations. The API in JSON format supports pagination; however, the data is too granular, making efficient extraction difficult. On the...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Show warnings and gray-out the "Execute Action" button when there is a need to update Firmware before changing the AWS Instance Type

When Turbonomic recommends actions that involve changing to an instance type with a different hypervisor—for example, migrating from an M4 instance to an R6a instance, which requires a transition from a Xen-based hypervisor to a Nitro-based hyperv...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Different Status Icon/Information for Inactive Credential

It would be helpful to have vendor credentials that are no longer ingesting billing information or no longer exists on the CSP display something other than a red exclamation mark with the 'invalid credential' error that suggests that the Cloudabil...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Request for Enhancement: Prevent Multiple Master Roles in IWS

In IWS automatic failover configurations, after a failure and subsequent recovery, there is a possibility that multiple MDM/BKM instances with master roles may run simultaneously (split brain). In evaluation environment, this situation caused a ba...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Functionality already exists