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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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Allow Tag Names and Values to be searched by typing rather than death scrolling

When creating a group using Tag filters, there is no easy way to find the tag value you are looking for without scrolling through hundreds of rows, for every single tag (usually there are several needed for a single group) on every group for every...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Cloudability RightSizing Snooze auditability

As a Cloudability Admin I'd like the RightSizing Snooze functionality improved from an Audibility perspective: - who instigated the snooze itself - when was the snooze enabled - add a comment field to explain the decision Bell provided feedback: T...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration