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Creating views on the fly

As a FinOps, I would like to be able to dynamically create a new view for each existing statement in my Business mapping. It's currently quite painful to have to create views manually. Creating a view every time the BM statement is = "True" would ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Ability to change order of cost sharing rules

customers can't change the cost sharing rules order when they need to change it from UI.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Apptio BI

Capability to move Dimensions between Dimensions and Alternative Dimensions
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Cloudability rightsize comment filter

Cloudability rightsize comment filter
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Simultaneous Execution Limits per Policy - Allow setting of number of parallel executions at a policy level

This is very useful in limiting the number of actions kicked off under the same schedule at the same time. Right now all actions which the policy applies to will kick off at the same time. This means that multiple members of the same service clust...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

New Dimensions for Resource Type on reports

to have a new dimension for reports that shows resource type. Currently having to use Item Description and Resource ID as a deminsion and then filter with one of those by using the (contains) operator to get to the resource type is a messy way of ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration