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Add Turbo support to the IBM FinOps agent used for Cloudability and Kubecost

Currently customers have to install 2 agents from IBM to use all of the available FinOps tools. Kubecost and Cloudability have already combined their agents into the IBM FinOps agent. Customers would like to include the Turbonomic needs into the s...

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Parity between data sources from CSPs

Cloudability does provide the same dimensions across AWS/Azure/GCP, and there should be parity. For example- Subscription ID and Reservation ID are available for AWS, but not GCP.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Latent Vacuum Engine v2.2: 6 White Hole Bursts in 100k Cycles — Area Law to 10⁻¹⁶

**Description**: - **GHZ benchmark** for ibm_sherbrooke/brisbane **Fault-tolerant** via boundary scaling **Photonic interconnect** via HOM V = T **Analog gravity** on silicon photonics **Who benefits?** - IBM Quantum team (2026 advantage) Almaden ...
9 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
18 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Make additional attributes available for column customization and filtering

Being able to make additional elements and information available for sorting, export, and filtering would greatly enhance navigation and decision making in the platform. Options to display additional info. i.e. entity tags, account tags, etc. Near...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Parking: Allow for a start date in future for parking

Currently, when you attach a schedule - it takes effect immediately. The idea would be to allow parking schedules to have a start and stop date - much like regular schedules.
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Instana SaaS hosted in Azure + Azure Marketplace offering

In Norway as for rest of Scandinavia the main public cloud is Azure. Azure has datacenters in Norway and Sweden, and most clients prefer to host SaaS applications there. Offering Instana SaaS in Azure in Europe would skip questions as mostly all o...
10 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted