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Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Link to report from the recommendation details for AWS RDS

AWS RDS is missing a link to the report where it goes into detail which resources would benefit from the reservation. The other services from AWS have this feature.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0

ServiceNow Connector should support ServiceNow "Workspaces" incident management feature

ServiceNow has introduced a new mechanism for handling Incidents replacing the simple Views. The AIOps Connector currently embeds and enhances the capabilities of these Views but does not yet provide the same capability for Workspaces. ServiceNow ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

The visible columns in the Variance Analysis (Detailed Actuals section) need to be customizable.

My client (Flowers Foods US) has requested to see account number in the actuals section of the variance analysis. This section is not customizable. We need to have a "show hide columns" feature on this view to bring in the account number.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Request to create HMC Observer

We have been advised by IBM to create this request for requesting HMC observer, seems there is already out-of-the-box developed observer which can be bundled to suffice.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration