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Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 23, 2024

Expand options for monthly execution schedules

Currently monthly reoccurring schedules are limited to picking a specific day (3rd Wednesday), but don't allow for selecting a timeframe such as 2nd weekend or 3rd week. Often patching and maintenance schedules are a timeframe such as the last weekend of the month. Allowing a multi-select on days (like it is for weekly schedules), or a generic Weekday/Weekend option would be useful for maintenance windows that shift from month to month in terms of date or day but are always X weekend. 

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Scott Johnston
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    Sep 20, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to submit your ideas. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

    The ability to select multiple days is available by choosing the duration of the schedule. For example, do the following to create a schedule that is active for the last weekend of each month:

    • Recurrence = Monthly

    • Repeats every 1 month on Last Saturday

    • Schedule start today (in this case Sept 20, 2024)

    • Start time is 00:00 (Midnight)

    • Duration Hours is 48 (covers Saturday and Sunday)

    And as a means of validating the expression is built correctly, a Summary is provided at the bottom:
    "Occurs every month on last Sat effective Fri, Sep 20, 2024 starting at 00:00 and finishing 2 days later at 00:00."



    If you have any additional feedback about this idea or there is something else that should be considered, then reply to this message to continue the conversation.