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Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Allow To Make Project Required Field For Team Creation

Please make it possible to set Project as a required field for creating a new Team.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Allow group filtering against another group

There is currently no good way (outside of tag modification) to quickly exclude an entity from Group A when including it into Group B. This results in a cumbersome process to exclude an entity from one group while including it in another group. Ad...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

The description tab should be available for Target

The Description field should be available for Targets. Currently, when adding a VMC vCenter as a target, we often have to use its IP address. However, since VMC environments are primarily identified by IP, only individuals familiar with those IPs ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Support Combined AND/OR Logic in Views for Advanced Filtering

Enhance the Views functionality in Cloudability to allow the use of both AND and OR conditions together within the same filter set. Current limitation: A view can only use either AND or OR logic, not both. Impact: This prevents combining different...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 3 Under review

Enhancing Sustainability Report/Dashboard

To further support on sustainability goals, we have been continuously implementing the changes in our cloud environments, such as Stop non-prod EC2 instances during weekend & rightsizing, etc. With all those approaches, not just impacting on t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review