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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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Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Automatically reconfigure host to add/remove licensed hosts for Turbonomic with Flexera integration

As a user of the Turbonomic integration with Flexera, I would like my host groups managed/automated in such a way that i do not have to create and update them, and when there is demand for additional licensed hosts Turbonomic will be able to recon...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

New text box for Validation and Automation Rules

The Validation and Automation Rules, need a note box. Since the Description is really the title, there is a need for a text box for general notes. Nothing fancy, just a field to put notes in that you don’t want in the Description box.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required.

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required. This is causing delay in detection of message wait, subsystem and other alerts which depends on Instana backend console re...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Better Overview of Hybrid environment managed by Turbonomic

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

Save option SNMP V3 credentials and WMI credential

Will allow automatic discovery of devices and automatic updating in case of changes. Makes SNMP V3 work the same as SNMP V2 - WMI same as SNMP per customer
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

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.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Security: Provide Option to restrict Logins to one per user

Currently, AIOps does not prevent a single user from logging in multiple times using e.g. different browsers and/or different hosts (phone, laptop etc). This is desirable for many use-cases but violates a single-login-per-user policy. Many organis...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review