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: Please add functions to Formulas that have the same functionality as the ASC and JIS functions specific to the Japanese version of Excel.

In Japanese text, Latin characters, katakana, and hiragana can appear in full-width and half-width forms, which may cause mismatches when comparing or referencing text. To address this, the Japanese version of Excel provides two functions:ASC(), w...
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Preserve Users and with all their access on product upgrade

Currently all users and there access have to be recreated after a version update of the IBM Concert product. For a customer with many users this means the creation of self written automation tools for a product base function. The product should pr...
about 2 months ago in Concert 1 Submitted

Alternative Identity Provider Support for IBM Concert on OpenShift (LDAP & Local Users)

Solution Value Statement Customers deploying IBM Concert on OpenShift often lack OpenID Connect with Keycloak. Providing alternative authentication options such as LDAP or local user management ensures broader adoption, simplifies onboarding, and ...
3 months ago in Concert 2 Under review

Apptio Costing:::Expand the ability to use Map Columns

The Map Columns transform step can only be used with what are called Master Datasets which only exist in components. This should be changed so that the Map Columns step can be used with any data transform. One of the main reasons for this is that ...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

Apptio Costing:::Improve enumeration and display of error message in transform pipeline

The error message in transform pipeline will often only surface a single error, even if there are multiple errors. This leads to an inefficient experience of clearing one error, only to be notified of another, and then another. Instead, the user i...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Default time period roll forward options

This idea is to add a configuration to automatically roll forward the default time period in TBM Studio projects. Currently this can only be done manually. It would be helpful to be able to set a rule like current month - 1, or current month, so t...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow weighting by fields with mix of positive and negative numbers

Currently within TBM Studio, if you create an allocation, it is really tempting to choose "weight by number" or "weight by metric" to allocate a quantity. However, if there is ANY chance that the column providing the weighting will have a mixture ...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Group metrics into folders

The project explorer lists metrics alphabetically without respect for use-cases. This idea is to introduce the ability for a TBM Administrator to group metrics into folders by use case. This would help people creating reports to select the appropr...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Automatic granularity

A common challenge in TBM Studio configuration is finding and eliminating "various" throughout the model. This represents where granularity is lost through grouping down data, and it will impact allocations and reporting. This idea is to implement...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted