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Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Add support for AWS Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting AWS Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but AWS is offering reservation for other services also supported by Turbonomic e.g. AWS is ...

Provide full list of images used for each version of CP4AIOps

I am submitting this request on behalf of Bank of America. Every time IBM development delivers a new version of NOI or Cloud Pak for AIOps, BofA is required to download the images into their internal Artifactory to run security scans on those imag...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Using Orchestration Queries (OQL) from Orchestration Command Line Interface (OCLI)

OQL is a powerful language to monitor scheduling objects both in the plan and model. It's usage with the Orchestration Monitor and REST API v2 allows customers to monitor and control scheduling objects today. Most customers control IWS using scrip...
24 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for 'Dell Powerflex' & "NetApp Solifire' storage as Target in Turbonomic

We are planning to migrate our VMs (Vcenter) from solidfire to powerflex storage (storage vmotion only). This is a potential multi year long project of migrating PBs of data from one storage to other. We would to like to present TBN/Turbonomic as ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Add subgroups to Object Groups.

Object Groups are too flat. It would be nice to have sub-group for object groups. They would be populated by the same type of rules used for object groups except the source would be the parent group instead of a device group. A DI report that has ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enable tag-based filtering to pre-snooze rightsizing recommendations directly in the Cloudability UI

The API currently supports filtering (pre-snoozing) rightsizing recommendations by tags, but this functionality is missing from the UI. Adding this feature would allow users to filter (pre-snooze) recommendations directly in the interface without ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration