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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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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, we have faced so...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mission Organization could hav...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Track rightsizing cost savings for optimization

As discussed on Slack with Lisa Harnett and the team, NVIDIA's resource optimization recommendations could track the rightsizing resource better by tracking the new resource ID. Currently "if you do a blue/green deployment (and the new resource ID...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Move tabs up when the tab scroll bar appears. Ensure the scroll bar doesn't cover part of the tab text.

why: the new functionality - Horizontal scroll bar for open Studio document tabs​ - is very helpful, but the scroll bar cuts off the bottom part of text. g, p,j,q,y all have their tails removed. Pricing looks like Pricino because the bottom part o...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

FinOps Review Framework And Data Governance in FinOps

Cloud cost are managed through resource tagging, cloud account Identifiers and various FinOps engineering, finance team, cost owners concept created within the organization to retrieve various aspect of cost reporting. On top of these constructs A...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Plugin Amazon S3 - Using Proxy for AWS S3 Connections

We are experiencing an issue with the "s3" plugin in IBM IWS (Amazon S3 integration). It appears that the plugin does not use the configured proxy settings to connect to AWS S3, resulting in a connection failure. Please check out the case I opened...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Domain Management -> "API Keys Disabled" checkbox FAR too easy to click

There was an issue lodged by the customer that their Datalink Connections were all failing and they didn't know why. Upon Engineering investigation, it turned out that API keys had been disabled and working with the customer to identify how, user:...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Map Azure Resource Name in the Resource Name Dimension

Populate the Resource Name Dimension in with the Resource Name provided by Azure
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted