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CLDY Service Account Management Is Required, With Technical Owner Assignee to Manage API Key Management

Define a secure, scalable, and governance-compliant Cloudability service account operating model that enables delegated, read-only API access and API key management for application teams without relying on CLDY Admins or ongoing FinOps administrat...
about 17 hours ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Submitted

Multi-Value Paste Filter for Table

Currently, IBM Apptio does not allow users to paste a list of values (such as IDs, Names, Project Codes, Cost Center IDs, or other fields) directly into a table filter in a single action. A highly valuable enhancement would be the ability to copy ...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

the font size of the column-picker slicer customization feature

the font size of the column-picker slicer customization feature, this will be really useful to align the UI as per the report size specially in New reporting studio.
4 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Changes for Creating a plan name

Since a plan name changes based upon selections under the Plan Name field, our suggestion is to move the plan name to the be the last field a user fills out prior to selecting the "Create Plan" option. Selections that modify the name include Plan ...
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Decimal Formatting Control for Waterfall Charts in TBM Studio

We are requesting the ability to suppress decimal values on Waterfall chart data labels within TBM Studio's reporting views. Specifically, we would like monetary totals (e.g., Total Monthly Spend) to display as whole numbers rather than with decim...
6 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Add ability to bulk update Generated (Enrichment) Editable Tables like you can for Normal Editable Tables

Generated editable tables for enrichment are highly valuable but have a key limitation. Users need to be able to export, update values and reimport to allow bulk updates like you can for standard editable tables. Like for standard editable tables,...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Functionality to Export Spend Waterfall Chart in IT Planning Expenses as Excel File to Support Multi-Language Feature

Currently, when exporting waterfall spend chart in the IT Planning Summary Expenses tab, it defaults to being exported as CSV file. This causes translation issues when selecting a preferred language outside of English. With the expansion to our Ja...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Filter rightsizing recommendations by lease type

Rightsizing recommendations currently can't be filtered by lease type, causing recommendations that if followed would result in waste by failing to consider the cost impact of the unused reserved instance.
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Submitted

Enable TBM Studio UI and API to provide a deep link that with the settings of all of the slicers/filters that can be shared to point a user to a Dashboard on TBM Studio with slicers/filters set to that value filtered for them

If a team is only interested in DATABASE costs for a specific CLOUD ACCOUNT that is shown on a TBM Studio dashboard, then the ADMINS/FinOps should be able via the UI and/or the API get get a deep link (sharing link) to that dashboard URL that has ...
26 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Provide description input option for promotions to production in TBM Studio

It would be useful to have an option to describe a reason or purpose for each promotion to production, similar to how we can provide a check in description when documents are checked in. Currently there is a "Reason" column in the promotions view ...
20 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Submitted