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Allow customers to configure a "quiet period" following action execution

After an action is executed, enforce a policy-configurable "quiet period" during which additional action generation is suppressed. Customers find frequent action generation/execution too disruptive and would like to be able to suppress action gene...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Under review

Allow a user to choose from among multiple scopes when using Turbo

Many customers have a need to provide users with different access levels to different infrastructure scopes (e.g., an application owner in Engineering needs AUTOMATOR access to resources related to their application, but OBSERVER access to everyth...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Add scoped API access

Currently, all API access to Turbo is globally scoped. You have access to the entire estate, or you have access to none of it. I would like to see the ability to create an OAuth2 client with scoped access (similar to a scoped user). As things are ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Planned for future release

When views are filtered, present them the same way as unfiltered views - with each folder shown once and views under it

The recently added view filter could be very useful, but when using any filter, the appearance is changed dramatically; instead of showing folders, with a list of views under them, the parent folder is shown separately for every view. So if 5 view...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Allow greater flexibility for labor planning by allowing for flexible schedules by month, for example, by giving the ability to spread cost based upon number of Sundays in a month.

This would be useful because currently I have the 4 week versus 5 week months and I can only get around this by creating a report and importing the report into external financials. This prevents me from doing some analysis by person since my costs...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Do not hide entities that are assigned to inactive teams in search and Quick Find by ID

If I have a entity like a UserStory, Feature etc. where a Team is assigned to the entity, and if the Team is later set as inactive, the entity can no longer be found in search (either by searching for keywords or by searching for the ID number. No...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Search 4 Submitted

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Add/Update/Delete Security Granularity in Apptio's Planning Modules (Labor, Contracts, Other)

The IBM Apptio Planning module does not currently support discrete add/update/delete permissions for individual users of the ApptioOne Planning modules (Labor, Contracts, Other). This limitation has led to challenges, particularly during our forec...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
about 1 year ago in Concert Workflows 1 Functionality already exists