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Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
1 day ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Scope Cost Sharing by Payer

Cost Sharing currently distributes shared costs across all/selected Business Mappings, regardless of which payer account incurred the cost. In multi‑payer, multi‑cloud environments, this leads to incorrect allocations. Add the ability to scope Cos...
about 24 hours ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / Access Control Submitted

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Save Column-set when viewing columns in a table or object in TBM Studio

When validating formulas or looking at data in a table or object with more than 75 columns, the user must change the column configuration to view what they need. If the browser refreshes or the data updates, this process must be repeated. It would...
about 18 hours ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Submitted

Be able to more easily rename a custom field in all locations

I just did an exercise in renaming hundreds of fields from the budgeting solution (For Example Proposed > Forecast) so that terms would match across all systems. It would be great if this functionality was easier, if the name was changed it cha...
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
17 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
less than a minute ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

Wrap text in list views and reports to fit longer text strings on the screen

This would help for overview and share information in e.g. meetings that more information could fit on the screen. If there is a lot of information that you want to display, not all columns fit on the screen.
about 1 hour ago in Targetprocess / User Experience Submitted

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