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Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

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

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

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...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under 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.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Visibility Cloudability issues

We use business mappings to control the views. However if the business mappings are updated the effect is that users can no longer view the ticket/cloudability issue they have raised and hence tickets/cloudability issues can no longer be updated b...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Needs more information

URGENT - Add "NESTING DETAIL" and "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" parameters to RestAPI used by WAPL jobs in order to mitigate slow response times related to networking. this IDEA has been suggested by IBM support

UNIPOL needs to use DWC REST API queries in order to monitor his TWS scheduling infrastructure. Specifically, he wants to check the status of a jobstream in the current plan, and all the jobs it contains. In case a job is not COMPLETED, we launch ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Regarding the option to retrieve data in Pricing Currency instead of Billing Currency on Azure

When importing Azure cost data into Cloudability, the system currently uses the Billing Currency. However, it appears that Apptio BI uses the Pricing Currency instead. Because Cloudability relies on the Billing Currency, we must manually upload ex...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Not under consideration