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Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Planning - combine actuals and planned values in Forecast

Currently, in the forecast plan, actuals are displayed as separate non-editable lines (for both past and future months), while planned values are maintained in separate editable lines (with actual months greyed out). Planners have shared that this...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Planned for future release

Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

TS019982564 - add support for SFTP protocol to File Transfer job

After back and forth with support it was confirmed that I won't be able to create file transfer job and use SFTP protocol. The protocol has been introduced almost 30 years ago and is de-facto standard used by our external partners. Please add supp...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
9 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Planned for future release

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

IBM CIO: Provide an easy feature to communicate messages using a banner at the top of Targetprocess.

IBM CIO is a large deployment of Apptio tool sets including Targetprocess and expanding. Often times we have product upgrades, migrations or SaaS maintenance upgrades. We need the ability to configure a communication message to our users what will...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Planned for future release