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Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to unschedule previously scheduled work in Maximo Scheduler.

In Maximo Scheduler, there is currently no ability to unschedule work that has already been scheduled. Can you please provide a way to do this? The reason this is so important to me, and my organization is that sometimes we have to deschedule work...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

DASHdb2 connection tipds for db2 on z/os

is it possible to have dash high available through a database on db2 on z/os?
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Automation Manager support of X.509 client certificate for REST hooks in the service composer

Currently ICAM service composer REST hooks supports basic authentication with login and password. For some clients such as banks this is basic authentication method is not allowed anymore for machine to machine communication. Instead, SSO based me...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration