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Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Install new Job types / Plug-ins into your distributed IWS Domain directly from the DWC

Leverage the power of the Automation Hub directly from your IWS Dynamic Workload Console to build more robust, agile, and future-ready automation solutions. With over 150 plug-ins the Automation Hub is rapidly expanding and allowing customers to i...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

We want UNIX/WINDOWS job to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state bassed on the output in Job logs/output.

We want to use this functionality- (Using the variable "this.stdlist" to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state) with Unix/Windows Job definition. Currently this functionality only works with executable job types. All the Jobs types have advance optio...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration