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Container Platform Resize vCPU & vMem Reclaim Amounts

Similar to VMs in VMWare systems pending actions view show the Resize vCPU & cMEM Reclaim amounts, it would be useful to show similarly for Container Platforms same total Reclaim amounts when demonstrating the potential goodness of doing Conta...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Restrict API Key Creation by Role

Currently any Cloudability user can create API Keys. The only way to prevent end users from creating API Keys is to disable API Keys completely across the domain. However admins need API Keys to be able to do some admin related tasks for both Clou...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 2 Planned for future release

Refresh Forecast/Actuals/Estimate in CFP Plan without needed to create a new plan

When the base cost dimension changes, there is no way to update the forecast/Budget/actuals with that new information without creating a new plan.For instance, if the base dimensions are created from Account number and new accounts are created, yo...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Reorder the list of jobs in a stream

We are using Dynamic Workload Console 10.2.2 It would be nice if we could easily change the order of jobs listed in a job stream. When we set up a new stream we add jobs in the order they are going to run then set up dependencies. If we later add ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Export All should use a fixed column order, and not vary with my Layout

The current functionality is confusing and non-intuitive, and interferes with many assumptions about how process flow should work. "Export All" should be a trustworthy 'I don't know what I need, give me everything' button that I can drp into Excel...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 5 Planned for future release

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Planning - combine actuals and planned values in Forecast

Currently, in the forecast plan, actuals are displayed as separate non-editable lines (for both past and future months), while planned values are maintained in separate editable lines (with actual months greyed out). Planners have shared that this...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release