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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 share reports to user in Saved state (Send Email Functionality)

User applies certain filters in the report , wants to share it with a colleague to view similar data . Shares the saved report using Send email functionality. However, when the colleague opens the shared link , the saved filters remain for a momen...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Asset Depreciation

Currently selecting straight line by depreciation the calculation is Purchase Price divided by Asset life (in months). Is there a way the calculation could be Net Book Value divided by Remaining life.  This is way Oracle calculates and to upl...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Display [Description] field's text on mouse rollover of Editable Table's fields

As a TBMA, I would like to inform end users interacting with Editable Tables directly or via a report component of a field's description and other advice via mouse rollover pop-up text boxes to show that field's [Description] value. Such advice co...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Apptio BI - Reorder tabs in a report

Hello everyone, I'm a bit surprised, but It is currently not possible to change the order of the tabs in an Apptio BI report. just opened a case and the support told me : After some research and experimenting, you cannot move the tabs after creati...
2 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink: Ability to hover over a connector for pop-up screen with details about connector

It would be very helpful if I could hover over a Datalink connector and see a pop-up box with general information about how the connector is built. For example, what time period the connector is pulling from and pushing to, what project the connec...
10 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Sound notification when Datalink connector finishes running

As a Datalink Admin or Apptio Admin, I'd like the ability to opt-in to a sound notification that's triggered when a Datalink connector status resolves (either Success or Failed). I'll know it's complete when I run a connector from Datalink, then h...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted