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Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Server/Agent-Level Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Instana

Hi Team,Currently in Instana, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can be applied at the Websites, Mobile Apps, Business Process and Applications etc... levels. However, there is no provision to assign access permissions at the server or agent level. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

A new line formatting on the "Define email body" section feature of the Email Subscription

Untruncated text in the Email Body field of Email Subscription "Define Email body" option is essential to deliver a comprehensive message ensuring the recipients receive the message as intended by the IT Finance team. This is to guarantee that cri...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 4 Under review

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted