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    Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

    In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

    Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

    When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2

    Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

    Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
    almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

    Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

    Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

    Enable Cloudability Connectivity via AWS Linked Accounts

    Cloudability's current AWS integration model requires connectivity through an AWS Organizations Management (Master/Billing) Account. While this architecture has served customers well, it is becoming increasingly difficult to support in large, high...
    4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

    Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

    Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
    8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

    Payment Option in Commitment Preferences Settings

    In the commitment preferences settings section, I would like to request an additional preference: Payment Option. This would allow customers to default All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront for their services and/or variants. 
    about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1

    "Spend Category" Field in Cldy to capture AI vs Non AI spend

    We have heard from customers that it would be beneficial to have a standalone field in CLDY for separating AI vs non-AI spend. This could be similar to Usage Family where all AI spend could be labeled AI and non-AI spend can be labeled as the inte...
    about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

    Ability to 'React' to comments using Emojis

    Users tagged in comments would like ot be able to provide a quick response/reaction so the comment creator can be notified the user has seen/acknowledge the comment.  This functionality is in Jira and ADO.  Users who have migrated from t...
    about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

    API Requests

    Hello, We would really appreciate the ability to complete the following actions via API, related to Cloudability financial planning 1. GET "Last Modified Date" & "Last Modified By" from the "Status" tab of a plan. 2. GET & POST Permissions...
    about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

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