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Apptio Costing:::Allow hierarchical slicer in TBM Studio report subscription

Currently if a report uses hierarchical slicers, those slicers are not available to be selected in the report subscription dialogue. This forces configuration changes on the report (removing hierarchical slicers and replacing with normal slicers) ...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0

Need OOTB Observer in IBM AIOPs for NetBrain platform for Topology and Inventory data injestion

Last week we have ( IBM SWAT and Account team + Leidos ) successfully competed AIOPs Demo and POC to NASA. Leidos ( https://www.leidos.com/ )is IBM BP in US for AIOPs indirect sell in US federal and defense market. NASA liked the overall AIOPs sol...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 2 Not under consideration

Option to hide/disable Cloudability metrics

Providing an option to hide or disable Cloudability Metrics would deliver additional customer value by giving organizations greater control over which metrics are exposed in their environments.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Need the ability to turn off widgets that are not being populated

We are currently launching our Planning instance with cost center owners and our environment only contains OpEx expenses with no labor data (due to some finance team concerns) so we have an empty Labor widget on our dashboard. I understand that TB...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 3 Future consideration

Full environment backup/restore mechanism for all runbooks/triggers/automations of Runbook Automations environment on NOI

The idea is to have a functioning backup & restore mechanism for runbooks, triggers and automations of a Runbook Automation component of Netcool Operations Insights. This should be used to regularly create backups and be able to restore from t...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable "Cost (Adjusted)" as a Configurable Metric for Anomaly Detection

Problem Statement: Currently, IBM Cloudability’s Anomaly Detection engine relies exclusively on the "Cost (Total)" metric. This creates significant operational noise, as billing artifacts like credits, refunds, and tax adjustments trigger false-po...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Planned for future release

Jira key change in Jira cause duplicated items in Targetprocess

If an Issue or Program Epic in Jira is moved from one Jira Project to another Jira Project, the Jira key in Jira is updated with a new name. In Targetprocess this update is treated as a new entity and thus we will have duplicated items in Targetpr...
11 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Future consideration

Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration