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Data Connectivity (Datalink)

Allow for Workday connector to support format=simplexml

Hello, We would like the Workday connector to be updated so that we can utilize formats like "?format=simplexml". This is the only way we are able to pull the data from workday via a report and are unable to use the connector because of this. We n...
12 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Display Error Details in Datalink History for Failures Caused by Deactivated ULS Service Account

For reference, we have observed that in some other scenarios (such as token expiration), error messages are displayed in the Details section as expected. In contrast, when the failure is caused by a deactivated ULS service account, no error messag...
22 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

No "Pause" option for scheduled connector groups

Sometimes we have a DL group that is scheduled to run but needs to be paused or bypassed
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Under review

Enable Event Chaining for DL's that pull from Dev

Our nightly process requires running multiple datalink groups (in DEV) to ensure data is accurately reflected in our CSM and BoIT extracts. Our DL's are scheduled based on past calc times with a buffer. Sometimes the calc runs so long that remaini...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Under review

After our security review we would like for a scan to be performed on customer files that are uploaded into Apptio to protect for potentially malicious content.

By having the scan it will protect our systems from potential malicious content and follow our normal security protocol which is not being met by Apptio currently.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Not under consideration

Customer requesting a data validation email if a load fails due to a format change in a column or a column being added to the data set

We have a customer requesting a data validation email if a load fails due to a format change in a column or a column being added to the data set. This would be part of the Uploader Service notifications to include data formatting validations, simi...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Under review

Meta data field of 'project_labels' not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration

We are able to upload the column named 'project_labels' using the Google Cloud Platform Connector on Datalink Classic. The meta data field however from GCP of 'project_labels' is not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration in FDM. Business reaso...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Under review

Copy connectors from one agent to Another OR Import & Export option

Admin should have the capability to copy a connector from one agent to another in on-prem implementation OR Ability to import and export connectors from one agent to another
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Future consideration

Schedule DataLink connectors by working days

Many of our customers manage the upload of the files in based on the working days, for example actuals are available on the 6th working day of the month Datalink allows this to be done only based on days and not working days, which can be affected...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Future consideration