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Apptio Costing:::Improved notification and workflow attached to anomaly detection feature

The current anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio identifies row count changes, but does not have workflow built in to ensure closed loop resolution. This ideas suggestion is to create two options: 1) lightweight workflow built into Studio where...
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

Add Turbo support to the IBM FinOps agent used for Cloudability and Kubecost

Currently customers have to install 2 agents from IBM to use all of the available FinOps tools. Kubecost and Cloudability have already combined their agents into the IBM FinOps agent. Customers would like to include the Turbonomic needs into the s...

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Parity between data sources from CSPs

Cloudability does provide the same dimensions across AWS/Azure/GCP, and there should be parity. For example- Subscription ID and Reservation ID are available for AWS, but not GCP.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Latent Vacuum Engine v2.2: 6 White Hole Bursts in 100k Cycles — Area Law to 10⁻¹⁶

**Description**: - **GHZ benchmark** for ibm_sherbrooke/brisbane **Fault-tolerant** via boundary scaling **Photonic interconnect** via HOM V = T **Analog gravity** on silicon photonics **Who benefits?** - IBM Quantum team (2026 advantage) Almaden ...
4 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted