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Formula Variable Viewer

As a Apptio Developer in my organization, we utilize many different table columns to calculate cost for reporting.  It would be nice to have a feature to view values and step through our formulas for verification.  Like viewing a program...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Add Business Mappings Reconciliation scheduling to Cloudability

As a customer with many environments in Azure and AWS, we must run the business mappings reconciliation script on a regular basis. Apptio developers have supplied the script and the associated credentials for the Cloudability API and we have creat...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Display multiple owners for 1 application

For 1-to-many relationships, I’m looking for a feature that allows the “many” values to display on a single row in reporting (separated by a character, e.g. semi-colon) instead of just displaying an ellipses indicating Various. In addition to maki...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Dynamic Result row for Reporting Tables

Result row for reporting tables is always at the very bottom of the visible table area. No matter if the table has 20 entries or just 2.  Can you add an option in the table settings where the result row is dynamic and shows directly under the...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Enhanced Excel Export Function

Add an option to add an "Export to Excel" button to any report, including modal pages. the button should export all tables in the report.  Allow to configure the default name or prefix of the excel export file. for example, "Application TCO P...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Embedded/reusable report component

I would like the ability to create one report and re-use it inside multiple reports. this could be like an HTML view that is displaying an existing report. the use case is that if we need to make changes to the report component we can do it only i...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Bookmarks in Apptio CT: Ability to save reports in Apptio to custom filters (Saved State)

User will select few filters in Apptio to view the relevant data . The user wants the filter to remain in saved state even after he logs off to come back and see similar views. Can Apptio provide an option to provide the user with a custom save op...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Bookmarking Cost Transparency Reports with User preference selections

Hello P&E team,  Would like to share a strong demand from our user's point of view where they would like to save or bookmark one of our customized reports in Cost Transparency on the selection they have made prior to saving the snapshot. ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted