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Alphabetical sort of the freeze columns interface

easier end user experience to find the column(s) you are trying to freeze
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Difficult to check what the changes have been made

Can we make group by in the top ? by the plan ?then by the amount ? so we can check how much amount was added or removed in the timeframe selected, filters of cost centre or others can be provided ( this should be visible to Admins and also for Co...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Issues with ITP rows with prior months data

In ITP today, users can delete a row that has data in prior months and when a row is duplicated, prior months populate as well as future months
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to add variance comments at the full year (FY) column in Variance Analysis or Compare Shortcuts

Add the capability to add comments when comparing an annual forecast plan to another annual forecast plan (actuals + forecast) and save the comments in a layout. Currently, there is no ability to add comments when using the compare shortcuts featu...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Functionality already exists

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Add a feature to allow report users to customize the reporting range themselves rather than having to request a different view of the same report.

I was approached today by the Vendor Management team to see if it would be possible to pull the last 12 (Individual) Months of data for 4 specific vendors. The current report shows the current FY's data so they would have had to download this year...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Functionality already exists

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mission Organization could hav...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists