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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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Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

MSP are manually processing AWS MAP credits, and they need an automated way of achieving this.

AWS offers an extremly complex way of receiving credits back for workloads that are being migrated to Aws from onprem. This complexity is by design to make sure for most part that credits are never realized. This requires enormous tagging of workl...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Providing limited access of Targetprocess to our Clients (External Users)

BMM needs to provide login access to our external users/clients so they can view Bugs/DIRTS, change statuses, and add/view attachments without compromising other clients' data. Each client should only be able to view and edit information assigned ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

SSO Validation for Targetprocess for a token

The security that is currently set up does not meet standards and is concerning that users can access when they shouldn't. For example if a service account token is shared and then a particular user leaves the company because the service account i...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Schedule Datalink connectors multiple times per week

Datalink should allow connectors to be scheduled multiple days per week.  Currently, I can only run once per week on the day that I choose, or every day.  For example, I have no way of running a connector every Sunday and Wednesday. ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Project field to be mandatory for all tabs

Currently, the project field is only mandatory for the labor activity tab but would like to make this mandatory for all tabs.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information