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External Code in Actuals

Looking to match up the resource external code from the labor tab to the actuals that come in at the resource level. That way we can identify when people have changed positions. 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Deselect Automation for Labor in Planning

The main end users who utilize Planning desire the ability to "turn off" certain automation features/calculations that Planning performs. Specifically for this use case, users would like the ability to not have the monthly projections "overwritten...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Attach PDFs to Contracts in ITPF

As a Cost Center Owner, I’d like to be able to attach our PDF contract to our contract line item so that I can easily identify, align and manage our contracts with our vendors. I’ll know it’s complete when I can look up a contract name or vendor n...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Layout like feature to Summary and Dasboard Screen of Apptio IT Planning

The Layout feature in the Expenses view allows users to filter out certain cost centers and cost types giving them a perfect view of their responsibilities.  When the user goes to Summary or Dashboard Screen the layout is not available which ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to change Comparison variance sign

Would like the ability to display the comparison variance as either B/(W) or (B)/W
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enhance the MFT agent dashboard

These "missing" metrics were not decided to show in the agent dashboard when the sensor was created:Total Timed Out Transfers The count of total timedout transfers through the agent.Total Retrying transfers The count of total retrying transfers th...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Would like to see the Queue represented in the Dependency topology for an application

In the customer's environment, our dependency map only shows the interactions between the Queue Managers. But, the interaction actually happens between the Queues. Since there are hundreds of queues on a queue manager, the customer wants to see th...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Configuration Precedence for Local and Client Binding Mode

When Client Binding mode is configured, the Agent will still try to use Local Binding mode first, which results in a plethora of error messages which could be avoided by simply skipping the automatic detection if a configuration has been set. This...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka as an Alert Channel

Some customer as CA GIP want to collect all the data on a Topic Kafka to be consumed by other applications/services. We can do that with a middleware and a webhook, but having a real alert channel to send data directly with custom payload.
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration