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Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

New Plug-in: Kafka Job Type and Dashboard

Kafka has become an integral part of the financial services technology stack, enabling real-time event streaming across diverse lines of business. From fraud detection to regulatory compliance, its applications are vast and impactful. However, the...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Log who triggered an integration sync

In Settings > Integrations > CSV export / import > "View messages log", it is possible to review logs for data imports and exports. One of the events that are logged is "Export run was triggered by USER". It would be a good improvement to...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Submitted

Ability to Reassign Ownership of Dashboards and Reports

It would be helpful to have a reassign ownership option, similar to Apptio BI, so that when someone leaves the org, they can just change the ownership of their reports. Unless I'm mistaken, the method now for dashboards would be to duplicate a das...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Ability to make placement decisions for heavy GPU workloads

Workload planning - is it able to do placement decisions for many GPU heavy instances? Current limit is 16 GPUs. Use Case: they have a cluster that has 200 H100s. We want to see best path to place to put this would be AWS in Region starting in X s...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Not under consideration

Default currency setting per user

As a user I would like to choose my default currency instead of just having a certain administrator set a default value for the entire organization so that I can see my costs in my currency in all Cloudability modules, not just in Apptio Bi.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration