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Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

Dashboards - No context filter sequencing

Unable to order the filters in sequential order on the dashboard Dependencies between the filters do not work when added on the dashboard
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Planned for future release

Group membership should be easily visible for each VM

When I look at a VM I can see an overview, details, policies, actions. I would like to be able to see what groups the VM is part of in this same view. Having to go into reports to find the groups for a VM is not a good user experience. Thank you.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Reports metadata (owners, shared with, etc.)

Description: The current reporting and analytics solution lacks critical metadata such as report ownership, sharing details, average execution time, usage statistics, etc. When I checked with the Support last time, the only information provided to...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Planned for future release

To have better ability to setup individual User preference on Row coloring to ensure usability for different color blindness disabilities

Want to have capability at a user preference level to customization Row colors that will allow customization of colors in the UI for better usability, especially for color-blind users that at the moment only have the default colors available.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Able for user to directly (Right Click) off Incident GUI to launch external tickets in system (e.g. BMC Helix ITSM) this part of core product not custom customer configuration

As a end user to go down multiple layers to triggers system outside tickets and not be able to view at the Incident GUI view the tickets is complex and time consuming making it inefficient and hard to use. Currently the implementation of having an...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Able for user to directly (Right Click) off Alert GUI to launch external tickets in system (e.g. BMC Helix ITSM) this part of core product not custom customer configuration

Users will still need to work in ALERTS GUI to take actions as not everything maybe rolled up into a Cloud Pak for AIOps INCIDENT. Currently the implementation of having an RUN book that triggers system outside of CP4AIOps Watson (Impact servers) ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release