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Making the Default time period Dynamic in TBM Studio

The Default Time period to be changed to a dynamic setting of (t-1) in the Time Settings option. Example- If the current month is April, the Default time period should be March and so on.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Corporate Font addtion to Studio

We have been following an ideation of having the option to have Corporate Colours added to Studio for reporting and have heard this has been built and will be in an upgrade soon. Would it also be possible to have Corporate Fonts added as an option...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Download formula step for easier copy and pasting

If you are building in a branch and you have a lot of formulas to copy over to the trunk, assuming you don't want to merge, you can download the formulas all at once to an excel or other tool.
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Email Distribution Enhancements

The email subscription feature has been very useful in report delivery since it's launch in November 2024. It would be very beneficial if we had the ability to set up subscriptions via AD groups, allowing the tenants or cloud program primes to add...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

When users update a file through a report with different column headers or different file types instead of receiving a warning message users shouldn't be able to check in the changes.

Repro: User uploads a file in a report with different column headers, or a different file type and a warning message appears Current State: Users can still save and check in data. They might see the warning message but no confirmation that they di...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration