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Increased Functionality of ADM between Planning and Costing

Increasing the functionality and integration capabilities between Planning and Costing for data, tables, and reference data management would significantly improve both usability and operational efficiency. Currently, reference data can only be pus...
4 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Multi-Cloud OIDC Workload Identity Federation for Turbonomic

Enable Turbonomic to authenticate to cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud through a common external OIDC workload identity, eliminating the requirement for long-lived cloud credentials and avoiding dependencies on a specific Kuberne...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Forecast not editable unless a row is added

All seeded data should not be editable; this includes Actuals and Forecasts (requires ability for an admin/BPO to mark lines as external within Planning UI vs only via import)  Includes 'Change Function' - Capability apply changes to for...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Labor Tab Adjustment column hide for Cost Centre Owners

Ability to inactivate or hide  Adjustments columns for Cost Centre Owners permissions.  This will provide more control on who can modify seeded data.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

FX Rates Reference Data visualization for previous plans

We have the need to see what FX reference data was used in previous plans fore comparison, analysis and validations. That also will help us to understand changes on total cost due to FX variations.  The idea would be to display the FX Rate th...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Allow users to assign custom colours to dimension values in Cloudability dashboard charts instead of automatically assigned colours, ensuring consistency across visualisations.

Currently, Cloudability automatically assigns colours to dimension values in dashboard charts, with no option to customise them. Allowing users to assign specific colours to dimension values would improve visual consistency, readability, and ease ...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Installation Automation (No Manual Operations Preferred)

  Background: 04/09/2026: Feedback from DE4 Installation Team: No Manual Operations Preferred. The DE4 team reiterated that manual operational steps are not acceptable for long-term deployment and operational management. Any required resizing...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Allow administrators to rename auto-generated HBM level names without recreating the hierarchy or impacting existing mappings, enabling alignment with business terminology while retaining all configured relationships.

Currently, when using Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM), the auto-generated business dimensions cannot be renamed once the hierarchy has been created. The only available workaround is to delete and recreate the hierarchy with the desired names....
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Preserve leading zeros in exported forecast files (e.g., 001, 081) to ensure exported and re-uploaded data remains consistent and does not create duplicate ICP-BM entries or inaccurate variance reporting.

Preserve leading zeros in exported forecast files (e.g., 001, 081) to ensure exported and re-uploaded data remains consistent and does not create duplicate ICP-BM entries or inaccurate variance reporting. DescriptionCurrently, forecast exports rem...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Ability to share Reports/Dashboards/Views/Folders with the Program level (Solution Train/ART)

Currently, we have the ability to share reports and dashboards with People, Teams, and Portfolios -- it would be great to add the Program (Solution Train/ART) level. We have about 500 Teams and 100 Programs - it would be so much easier to be able ...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review