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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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Move tabs up when the tab scroll bar appears. Ensure the scroll bar doesn't cover part of the tab text.

why: the new functionality - Horizontal scroll bar for open Studio document tabs​ - is very helpful, but the scroll bar cuts off the bottom part of text. g, p,j,q,y all have their tails removed. Pricing looks like Pricino because the bottom part o...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Rightsizing ROI- Allow businesses to define custom resolutions when "Wont Do" is selected in Rightsizing ROI tickets.

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, I need to be able to itemize missed optimization opportunities. Currently, the comment field offered in the Rightsizing ROI is a free form only field, and the field is not exported when you export the r...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Update .ssa-jss5391 to wrap text

.ssa-jss5391 { overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-wrap: auto; } can you please change ssa-jss5391 to the values I shared previously? some of our metrics are to large to fit on the webpage and we cannot see the full name and we cannot use ...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enable multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Future consideration

Target health check “TEST button”

Hi Team :-) In Legacy PMC product we have a TEST button which can check the health of the Target. I think it would be amazing to have the same in Turbonomic Here below how it works: After you run TEST, and let's say, there is any issue with List r...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Future consideration

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration