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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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Support for NGINX in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for NGINX, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
19 days ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Expand Frontdoor API to include CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE (CRUD) of custom roles

As a Managed Service Provider who manages the Apptio implementation on behalf of the customer organization. The customer organization has many agencies underneath. Each agency may or may not have same permissions to view and use different componen...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition

Apptio currently does not support OpenShift Container, unless it’s ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS), which is a service provided by AWS. Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition, and we kindly request that you review...
11 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

ITP / Labor KPI metric to show both the current MEC's actual and YE forecast

In ITP, labor/KPI currently shows only the year ending headcount. We want to be able to see both the current month-end that has actual available and also year-end forecast/target. This basic workforce status view will be meaningful to upper manage...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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...
11 days 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...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

TBM Studio X Cloudability Integration

We learned from Apptio DAT team no direct integration from TBM Studio to Cloudability. This means we need to maintain Tags and Business Mappings manually or using API. This is a major challenge and not feasible for a large organization and project...
11 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted