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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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Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Have standard time selection for Resource inventory

To be able to select last month, last 30 days, last 7 days, etc. for resource Inventory
9 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
18 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.
18 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Give the possibility to copy/duplicate several budget lines in one action

Currently, we can only duplicate one line. Goal is to be able to copy/duplicate several lines in one action. Maybe possible to implement it with the new view thanks to the CheckBox selection present at each line ?
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted