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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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Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Future consideration

Technical service layer does not fit the use-cases of the current clients

The Technical Service Layer that the OOTB-model tries to use is too simplified for the use cases of our clients: More specifically there is currently not the possibility of allocating cost to a technology service by applying offering ID. In the wo...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration

Better Overview of Hybrid environment managed by Turbonomic

Better breakdown of larger supply chain and easy to get VMware, Cloud, Containers segregated information
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Possible filters in History tab

With automation rules and metrics putting a lot of records in history, it’s very difficult to find who changed a field in the past. I think it would be perfect if we had the possibility to have a dropdown where you select a “field” which you want ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration