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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Please implement a way to hide production subscriptions for cloud parking

In most situations, we don't want to park production subscriptions, so would like to hide these for the majority of users. For the infrequent times we want to park production, I would want to see this available for elevated-access users only.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Functionality already exists

Interactive BenchMarking Translation (Japanese)

Interactive BenchMarking is not translated into Japanese. It would be very convenient for Japan customers if it is translated like other products.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Integrate the capability to connect to a vault to get target credentials

In many different organizations, the security teams are more and more pushing the use of vaults to store system accounts or system to system credentials. Turbonomic is connecting to many different infrastructure management systems like the Cloud A...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Edit access to Planning Application in Access Administration

As being provisioned as a user I would like to go into planning and edit a users cost object permissions and then edit the visibility to remove planning from their view.  The ultimate goal is to view planning data in ApptioBI but not have acc...
10 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration