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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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Message bus probe support for NFMP/NSP release 24.X

soon we will upgrade NFMP/NSP to version 24.X. can you validate the probe message bus will support all new releases NFMP/NSP 24.X
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review

More detailed error messages in Datalink Financials

A similar enhancement idea already exists for Datalink Classic, but the error messages for Datalink Financial are also inscrutable. Example: Failed connector details: "Error while calling Async Post API. Code: 500 , Message: Error message rece...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data.  In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from bein...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team?  Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that woul...
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

IT Planning Event Log : open function for Cost Center Owners

Currently Event Log is useful, but it is only visible for Admins. Especially for cost centers managed by multiple users, these cost center owners want to see who eventually has done a change.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
6 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Targets KPI Section in ITP - Multiyear view, add/custom columns, filter capabilities

Targets KPI Section in ITP - As Administrators, we would like to be able to view multiyear target data.  Also, the feasibility to add columns in the Target plan and the ability to filter column data by year, region and cost center.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review