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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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The visible columns in the Variance Analysis (Detailed Actuals section) need to be customizable.

My client (Flowers Foods US) has requested to see account number in the actuals section of the variance analysis. This section is not customizable. We need to have a "show hide columns" feature on this view to bring in the account number.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
about 1 month ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Support Fortigate VDOM-aware discovery and unidirectional LLDP stitching in ITNM

Currently ITNM discovery for Fortinet Fortigate firewalls does not fully work as expected. The product does not correctly recognize VDOM contexts, which results in duplicate or incorrect interface IP addresses (extra octet, e.g. 10.76.194.58.14). ...
3 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Ability to export SevOne Object Rules to a file using tools like SevOne-export command

Customer is looking for a better way to export configuration to a file and import then later in case they need to configure Object rules from scratch
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Provide Ping, SNMP Walk, Traceroute tools to a network device

user should be able to perform these tools from a corresponding NMS where the network device is onboarded and provides the output. These can verify the connectivity for troubleshooting
3 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add support for Kubernetes Hierarchical Namespaces (HNC)

Engineering/dev teams need to leverage HNC parent-child structure to manage k8s resources Enabling rollup of cost & usage data from the child to the parent level Engineering/dev teams should have the ability to drill down to the k8s component ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted