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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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Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

It takes around 5 seconds without indicator to load group scope for external user in Turbonomic UI

It's very confusing when we select a user and see no group. If we wait for a while then groups appears...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Under review

Add a javascript evaluator on the function node (jsfiddle like)

Hi, During the integration, when we have to manipulate the data or make some calculation using the "function" node, we have to use an extra tool like https://jsfiddle.net/ to test our javascript code in an interactive way. Regards,
3 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises)

We request Turbonomic to support IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises) as a storage optimization target. We would like to monitor the capacity and the actual usage of the storage and be able to take optimization actions as needed.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
3 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted