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Update the Workstation definition during manual switchmgr

Whenever you run a switchmgr to move the MDM from one server to the other, it should automatically update the workstation definitions. This is already done during an automatic failover, just not a manual one.
13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Preserve Deep Link Destination After SSO Login

Currently, when a user opens a direct link to a specific entity, action, group, or any other resource in Turbonomic, the system redirects them to the SSO login page if they are not already authenticated. However, after successful login, the user i...

Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Apptio Report Studio:::Allow searching in hierarchical slicers

Hierarchical slicers are very useful in reports to layer hierarchical data by bringing in a carefully created perspective. However, their values cannot be searched the way a normal slicer would work. This idea is to make hierarchical slicers searc...
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Improve enumeration and display of error message in transform pipeline

The error message in transform pipeline will often only surface a single error, even if there are multiple errors. This leads to an inefficient experience of clearing one error, only to be notified of another, and then another. Instead, the user i...
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
24 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Apptio Datalink:::Make datalink fiscal calendar aware to improve configuration experience

When selecting a source or destination month in Datalink connectors, all selections are in calendar month/year. This can cause mistakes and confusion for customers that have fiscal calendars other than Jan through December. The most common error i...
15 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Default time period roll forward options

This idea is to add a configuration to automatically roll forward the default time period in TBM Studio projects. Currently this can only be done manually. It would be helpful to be able to set a rule like current month - 1, or current month, so t...
15 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted