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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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Publishing IT Planning data without Check-in

It's important to have the ability to prevent triggering the calculations/check-in when we publish the IT Planning data into CT.  One may argue to hold off publication until the budget is finalized. But to get the full picture, decision maker...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Allow ability to not actually suspend hosts, but put them in a state where no VMs will be placed on them

The way that our infrastructure is set up does not respond kindly to host suspend/power off actions, but we want to be able to densify our current environment. We'd like the ability to enable "suspend host" such that we can operate efficiently on ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon DynamoDB (Turbonomic)

Many of our customers (including potential customers) use AWS Dynamo DB, and the support for it is the key to Turbonomic's penetration to the Japanese market and customers' higher satisfaction. Your prompt cooperation to our idea would be highly a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Mange totals at the bottom of a column

Some columns contain an average or a multiplier (eg, number of users) that doesn't make sense to make a total from. I wish we could right click in TBM Studio and choose "Total, Average, None".  Also happens on the Totals column, all Metrics a...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

The metrics pods are erroring out because they cannot have a secret defined for them. This causes many errors. Need to turn them off OR add a secret.

The current metrics pods are used to gather data for the last 14 days so that Turbo instances can instantly give recommendations on being connected to a new target without having to wait 14 days. However in this particular client (and I'm sure oth...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Is a defect

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Request to add search box to search the filters/views in Event Dashboard/Filter Buidler/View Builder

We have 10k+ filters in our WebGUI environment. It's hard for us to search the filters while creating/editing Event Dashboard. We are looking for the search box to search filters/views while event dashboard creation/edition. And also looking for t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration