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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Categories Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 20, 2026

Suspend Virtual Machines - Global View

In the Global View, Suspend Virtual Machines is the only view in the Global view that gives limited column details necessary to identify and make decisions.  All of these views have Account Name and other criteria necessary to identify the instance: Scale (Volumes, Virtual Machines, Database Servers), Delete (Volumes) and Suspend (data warehouse).   It doesn't show in the download either for Suspend virtual Machines.  

These are the 14 columns showing for Suspend Virtual Machine:

Date created
Action ID
Name
Action category
Action State
Environment type
Cost impact ($/mo)
Prerequisite 1
Prerequisite 2
Prerequisite 3
Prerequisite 4
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In the Cloud view it does show expected additional columns that we would expect to see to allow users to make informed decisions.  things like Account Name, Instance Type, Instance ID, Region, etc.  

Date created
Name
Account
Instance type
Region/Data center
Instance id
Action category
Action State
Cost impact ($/mo)
Risk
Risk description
Prerequisite 1
Prerequisite 2
Prerequisite 3
Prerequisite 4
Tags
Recommendations
Sharing URL

It is very strange in the global view that Suspend Datawarehouse has account name which is what is expected.  And Scale Virtual Machine also has all the necessary columns.  The only view that doesn't is the Suspend Virtual Machines.  Please update the Global view for Suspend virtual Machines to be consistent with all other views and downloads.

Idea priority Urgent