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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
4 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...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Under review

Saved Views on Tabbed Reports

Recently saved views was introduced, but often breaks/does not save/displays errors on complex tabbed reports. Hard to explain to users which reports it might work on vs broken.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Under review

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Under review

Allow the date range columns to be translated in custom reports.

OOTB report is translated the date range columns , but Custom report is not transrated the date range columns . I would like to be able to translate the date range columns of custom reports. the date range columns:you can add to a table: Months Ye...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Under review

Sort field names in the Hide/Rename step of the Transform pipeline

The Hide/Rename step should either have an option to sort field name ascending or descending, or it should just auto sort ascending. When a long list of field names are hidden, it make sit challenging to scroll through to see if a specific field i...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Under review

It would be great to enable Error messages in TBM studio to export to Excel

Processing of error messages would be more efficient, if export to excel is available on this table. In particular in case there is a lot of errors or comparing the list after upgrade.
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Under review

Add this new idea creation link as one of the tile in IBM support main portal

I would think adding the new idea link to the IBM Support portal main page as one of the tiles would be super beneficial for all. I sometimes in the need to be able to submit such and would be great to be able to find this link on the page ,well o...
9 months ago in Apptio / Other Under review

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Under review

Proactive Support for Long Running Threads

Hi Guys, I raised this ticket last night and as part of the investigation the team identified long running threads that they performed maintenance on, we noticed a very sharp increase in Dev Environment responsiveness and performance. It’s been an...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing Under review