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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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Request for Shortened Report Links in Cloudability

The customer has highlighted a challenge with the current structure of Cloudability report links. Unlike Apptio BI, where links are shortened, Cloudability links embed the entire report logic, making them excessively long.
30 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name in the case that the same network name exists in two different data centers. Under the current design, if the same network exists in two different ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Project cost savings based on parking schedules

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the ability to project cost savings based on parking schedules and resources selected, so that I can predict and plan for the cost savings associated with parking the workloads.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Ensure stacked bar charts can be limited to show set # of elements on the axis, but no limit on the stacking

Right now we either have the option to show an inaccurate chart limited by the "# of rows" feature, or show ALL rows which makes too much data visually available in the chart. These are not good options and we should be able to just show a stacked...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Resource Inventory Statistical Filtering Needs to Include Views and standard filters into consideration

Currently, applying a view or standard filters to the results of the Statistical Filtering will only display results if an object is within the results applied at the Statistical Filtering. This feature also needs to be able to apply a view or sta...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

CosmosDB autoscaling options

With MSFT turning on Autoscale V2 features, there's a number of CosmosDB databases running at the lowest levels, but that CAN benefit from turning on Autoscaling. Having this feature enabled as an OPTION in CosmosDB / Turbonomic would be excessive...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Planned for future release