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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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Centralize Executed Actions between Turbonomic instances

If we want HA for any of the features that Turbonomic provides, our only option is to set up some sort of hot-warm configuration. With this configuration, actions are generated and performed locally only. If failovers have occurred in the past, it...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Add Additional Custom "Employee Type" Values for Labor

As a TBMA supporting a broad implementation of IT Planning to other orgs, I would like to be able to allocate Labor using employee type values beyond "Internal" and "External". We have other categories/subcategories of resources that need to be al...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

AIOps license utilisation in UI

Customers need to see the AIOps license utilisation, number of managed devices, client devices, and logs processed in GB. This will help customer for budgeting next yeat license purchase.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Customized landing pages based on Personas

I would need to have different landing pages (reports) customized to each Persona in Front Door. Thus, everyone would land on a set of reports tailored to their use cases.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

matrix visual capability

I often use matrix tables as visuals in my power bi reports. With Apptio Cloudability now utilizing the Apptio BI engine, this would be a powerful way to enhance its table capability. The Table visual itself is necessary for many situations, and h...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Prevent user to alter configured Budget cap.

We enter budget forecasts every year for each AWS account and Azure subscription in Cloudability. We would like to prevent users from altering configured budget thresholds. If any changes are required, then the Cloudability admin can update the bu...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review