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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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Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Have standard time selection for Resource inventory

To be able to select last month, last 30 days, last 7 days, etc. for resource Inventory
28 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Print pdf layout in CT to consider custom colour paltette applied to a report

The print to pdf feature in Cost Transparency, prints the report using the standard colour palette. Although applying a custom colour palette to a report, the print functionality doesn't consider the custom colours.
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Give the possibility to copy/duplicate several budget lines in one action

Currently, we can only duplicate one line. Goal is to be able to copy/duplicate several lines in one action. Maybe possible to implement it with the new view thanks to the CheckBox selection present at each line ?
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Possibility to create report on the "Report Collection" table

Give the possibility to create a report allowing to have the information stored in the "Report Collection" Goal should be to obtain easily wat are the selected role assigned to a collection but also the report assigned to it. This will be more eff...
29 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted