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Data Connectivity (Datalink)

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Connectivity into Apptio via AWS

Hi I know Apptio is standalone application, and it could be possibly hosted anywhere. Now it's hosted on AWS. I work in large organization, and we are also using AWS, which is trusted partner for us. It makes it much easier from data governanc...
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Business or work day of month option for scheduling

(This is in relation to earlier idea https://community.apptio.com/idea/work-day-schedule, which was marked incorrectly as delivered.) Please add a recurrence option when scheduling connectors to use business or work days for monthly schedules. Be...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to pull a list of all datalink connectors and the URL details

I would like to be able to export a list of all our datalink connectors and some data about them, like what the Source URL is
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink: Ability to hover over a connector for pop-up screen with details about connector

It would be very helpful if I could hover over a Datalink connector and see a pop-up box with general information about how the connector is built. For example, what time period the connector is pulling from and pushing to, what project the connec...
10 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Sound notification when Datalink connector finishes running

As a Datalink Admin or Apptio Admin, I'd like the ability to opt-in to a sound notification that's triggered when a Datalink connector status resolves (either Success or Failed). I'll know it's complete when I run a connector from Datalink, then h...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
about 23 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Export list of Datalink Connectors with details

Customer would like to be able to export an Excel file containing details to all their Datalink connectors- Name, Type, Group, Last Run, Next Scheduled Run, Agent, Destination, Source, Schedule, etc. This will allow them to effortlessly create a d...
6 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink: Multiple Year Copy

We are using a dedicated project to report data from Planning and copy reference data from CT to to Plannig CT. Today we have to set-up multiple datalinks to push data for multiple years. Our demand is a capability to copy a full table including a...
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted