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AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Support RegEx in Values field of Shared Rules

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules', based on Namespace names. - A regular Openshift cluster has 72 (!) namespaces starting with 'openshift-'. - As cluster admins, we install cluster ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
7 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

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

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