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Multiple sorts in Apptio BI tables

In Apptio BI, the current table visualization allows sorting by only one column at a time. The requested enhancement is to enable multi-column sorting. For example, in a table with three columns—Account Name, Service Name, and Cost Total—users sho...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Include more services under RightSizing preferences

Currently you can only do few customisations for filtering the recommendations in EC2 and S3, we want more services under the preferences umbrella so that we can customise what we want in the recommendations in a better way.For Example: we don't w...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Visual Encoding: apply color to 1st, 2nd and 4th levels / rows / lanes of hierarchy in Lists

As for now only cards are colored. It would be useful to color 1st and 2nd level hierarchy as well.
over 10 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to delete files from Datadrop directly

At the moment we are unable to directly delete files from our DataDrop viewer and need to raise a support ticket. It would be great if this was an option for us to self-serve. Background of our issue: many files get copied into DataDrop each day...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure table columns shown in Optimize → Rightsizing recommendation summaries

Problem:Right now you can filter the rightsizing table down based on tags and resource meta data however there no way to include and show relevant tag values, resource state, dimensions. Request:Have the ability to show what columns show in the ta...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Data export that triggers download directly in browser instead of having to wait for an email link

Problem:Right now when you generate a csv data export for a visual in an Apptio BI report, you get a pop up message to check your email. Then you have to go to your email and wait for the link to the download to arrive. Then open that back in your...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to expand the size and full-screen of the drill table results popup

Problem:Right now the size of the drill table pop-up in an Apptio BI report is fixed. Drill tables with many columns are difficult to read and navigate in the current pop-up size. Request:Allow a report view to drag a corner of the drill table pop...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted

Show specific data range included as “previous period” in visuals with a previous period comparison enabled

Problem:Right now when you have a visual with a "compare" to "previous period" enabled, the previous period metric in the visual is just labeled "previous period" and doen't state what the previous period includes. Request:To provide clarity and r...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted