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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
about 2 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Under review

Easier Way to Identify Drill Down Reports

We recently had Apptio perform a Technical Health Assessment and we received a list of reports that were recommended to make inactive.  Many of them were drill down reports which are hard to identify from the Apptio UI,  It would be a he...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

ITP Automated Notifications - Ability to change their verbiage and logo

At every main phase of an IT Planning plan (opening, closing, etc.), communications are sent to cost center and department owners. In order for these emails to be more impactful to customers and for them to not be categorized as spam (or even as p...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

All configuration items involving Alerts should allow the usage of all fields from the Alert schema including custom fields

AIOps enables the extension of the alert schema with custom fields and these should be able to be used in the configuration of the system. This would include: In the "Add Menu Item" dialogue All fields should show in the list of columns selectable...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data.  In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from bein...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team? Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that would allo...
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

More detailed error messages in Datalink Financials

A similar enhancement idea already exists for Datalink Classic, but the error messages for Datalink Financial are also inscrutable. Example: Failed connector details: "Error while calling Async Post API. Code: 500 , Message: Error message rece...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

IT Planning Event Log : open function for Cost Center Owners

Currently Event Log is useful, but it is only visible for Admins. Especially for cost centers managed by multiple users, these cost center owners want to see who eventually has done a change.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review