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The description tab should be available for Target

The Description field should be available for Targets. Currently, when adding a VMC vCenter as a target, we often have to use its IP address. However, since VMC environments are primarily identified by IP, only individuals familiar with those IPs ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

When users update a file through a report with different column headers or different file types instead of receiving a warning message users shouldn't be able to check in the changes.

Repro: User uploads a file in a report with different column headers, or a different file type and a warning message appears Current State: Users can still save and check in data. They might see the warning message but no confirmation that they di...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Increase limit for Rightsizing Policies.

In my org, we have multiple projects, as such have hit the maximum number of Rightsizing Policies CLDY allows us to create.
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add information to Vendor Credential page explaining reason for advanced credentials

Currently we do not see any official documentation from IBM about what features are impacted by what we call Advanced Credentialling. It would be very helpful to add a text box in the application UI somewhere in the credentialling page explaining ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

View Allocations Drivers Over a Period of Time

When adding Drivers to a column or line chart, and bringing in historical time periods, Apptio does not support the use of the Driver field. This would be very useful for comparing the cost of different allocations over a period of time. In our us...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Enable CSV export of all rows of a report instead of just the data on the current page.

Currently a CSV export of a report widget will only export one page of data i.e. whatever data is shown on the current page. Please provide an option to download all rows of a report widget so that there is no need to page through a report and exp...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Needs more information