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Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
6 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add a "pause" option for scheduled connector groups

It would helpful if there was an option to pause a scheduled connector group instead of having to completely remove the schedule when you don't want it to run and then add it back when you do. There are times when we need to bypass just one day of...
12 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Enable Event Chaining for DL's that pull from Dev

Our company uses dev for our config of datalinks instead of staging due to our staging calc times being too long for our overnight processing. It would be great if we could leverage the event chaining with dev instead of scheduling our connector g...
12 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Compatibility of ECDSA format public keys to be complaint with banking federal standards

Currently Datalink is supporting ssh-rsa format. To be more complaint on security standards ECDSA format is being preferred, so the ask is to support public keys of format ECDSA. The new acceptable key algorithms are Key Type: ECDSA Auth Key Algo:...
18 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add a column to the Connections page to show the Time period the data loads to so it's easier to update connections to the next Fiscal Year

We have over 225 datalink connections, some of which post the ingested data to a specific month (the beginning of our Fiscal Year). Since there is currently no column to show which month the data will post to, we have to review every connection in...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Enhance the cloud file ingress Datalink connector to support importing parquet files from AWS.

Enhancing the cloud file ingress connector to support parquet format would bring it closer to the level of functionality companies had with the multicloud connector in Datalink (Classic). The multicloud connector supported parquet format and many ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 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...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink Connection For Non-Billing GCP BigQuery Data Ingestion

As a TBMA, I my organization ingests GCP Billing data into TBM Studio for reporting. We also have other GCP-related costs from vendors, such as Kafka and MongoDB, that are not included in the GCP BigQuery Billing table. We need an automated TBM St...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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