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In IT Planning the client wants to see in one tab the ability to show labour activities and the financial outcomes without having to move between tabs

Because it means an easier UI experience for the user
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Notify admins on system failures (i.e. AR, Metrics, etc...)

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently provide any form of notification or alerting mechanism for system-level errors or failures. This includes—but is not limited to—issues with: Automation rule execution Synchronization failures Lo...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

A new line formatting on the "Define email body" section feature of the Email Subscription

Untruncated text in the Email Body field of Email Subscription "Define Email body" option is essential to deliver a comprehensive message ensuring the recipients receive the message as intended by the IT Finance team. This is to guarantee that cri...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration