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Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Datalink: Show destination time period and add filters in main report

Add a column to show destination time period: It would be helpful especially at year end if we could see the Destination time frame. Annually we have to check each datalink (or maintain a separate list) of the tables that load to the first period ...
14 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services. At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data. This change would provide additional control over da...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Add “Other” Grouping Option in Cloudability Dashboards

Why is it useful? In Apptio BI, users have the ability to enable or disable the “Other” grouping option when displaying results. This setting allows for cleaner and more accurate data visualization by deciding whether smaller categories should be ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Maintenance windows

Our client requires: An intuitive interface for managing maintenance windows (MW): This should allow the organization of time periods during which specific applications or infrastructure are under maintenance. For example, the MW “Business days...
28 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 2

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relations tab

Amex would like to remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relationships tab, only keep the tab for viewing relations.
29 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Future consideration

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration