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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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Ability to group schedules in ADM like DL

This would allow for you to set one schedule and have all the items in the group run at the same time instead of having to set individual schedules for each one. If one changes you would have to change them all but with the grouping you could just...
17 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

disable the field mandatoy to both schulde

good day to safe the charge of cloud we need turn off the virtual machine or RDS instance, however the task request both schedules, like idea i considered that the task no must be selet both schedules, i know other providers that have it function ...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Number widget comparison indicators need better visibility

Dashboard Enhancement request.... Please change the white-on-light grey text within number widgets with a comparison to be more readable (darker background, larger % number, outline of text....). Screenshots of these widgets do not emphasize the d...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
18 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
18 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

ITP Respect Cost Object Permissions for Group Cost Centre Editors

In ITP today, we use group cost centre owners in the division heirachy for both editing, review and rollup purposes. These group cost centre owners only have Editor access in Cost Object Permissions, and do not have Owner access. However, when a g...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Apptio BI - Formatting the Charts

It would be good if we have the option to change the color format of the Pivot and Bar Charts in Apptio BI. We have this functionality in Cost Transparency. Request you to implement the same in BI as well.
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted