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The description tab should be available for Target

The Description field should be available for Targets. Currently, when adding a VMC vCenter as a target, we often have to use its IP address. However, since VMC environments are primarily identified by IP, only individuals familiar with those IPs ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Not under consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

More granular authorisation to execute impact policies via the REST API

As of Impact 7.1 Fix Pack 23, Impact policies can be triggered using the REST API. This is great and we have some use case where our Netcool users could benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, a user must have the impactAdminUser role to access ...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

AWS Plugin - Synthetic Indicators

As opposed to using REST API to create calculation poller data, we would be able to define expressions that use the pollable fields to create new AWS objects for metrics. (Examples of this can include In and Out metrics translated from their bits/...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 2 Delivered

Corporate Font addtion to Studio

We have been following an ideation of having the option to have Corporate Colours added to Studio for reporting and have heard this has been built and will be in an upgrade soon. Would it also be possible to have Corporate Fonts added as an option...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Increase limit for Rightsizing Policies.

In my org, we have multiple projects, as such have hit the maximum number of Rightsizing Policies CLDY allows us to create.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration