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Variance Analysis functionality by Department & Vendor

Right now I understand that Variance Analysis for Forecasting in Apptio Planning can only be performed by Cost Center & Account Category. Allowing Variance Analysis to be configured based on different data would be tremendously helpful! For ex...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Saved Views on Tabbed Reports

Recently saved views was introduced, but often breaks/does not save/displays errors on complex tabbed reports. Hard to explain to users which reports it might work on vs broken.
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Conditionally Group Alerts into Topology Resource Groups

We need to be able to apply filters to received alerts to allow them to be conditionally associated with Resource Groups.Our Resource Groups align more closely with incident assignees and contain resources that can be considered "infrastructure" a...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

ServiceNow and Cloudability Integration with mandatory fields

ServiceNow and Cloudability Integration with mandatory fields
2 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
2 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Netcool/OMNIbus : RHEL10 support

We plan to use Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 Core and EIF SDK on RHEL 10.RHEL 10 has already been released, but it is not yet supported for NCO 8.1.Please support Netcool OMNIbus 8.1 Core and EIF SDK for RHEL 10.We hope that this support will be realized soon.
2 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Turbonomic x ServiceNow integration supporting OAuth2 using a JWT certificate

Bradesco Bank, one of IBM's largest clients in Brazil, is in the process of configuring Turbonomic integration with Service Now. One of its Information Security team's requirements is to use the oAuth2 authentication protocol using a JWT certifica...
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1 Submitted

Update the Workstation definition during manual switchmgr

Whenever you run a switchmgr to move the MDM from one server to the other, it should automatically update the workstation definitions. This is already done during an automatic failover, just not a manual one.
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Expand the ability to use Map Columns

The Map Columns transform step can only be used with what are called Master Datasets which only exist in components. This should be changed so that the Map Columns step can be used with any data transform. One of the main reasons for this is that ...
7 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Ability to rename metrics in TBM Studio

Currently without any way to rename a metric, if users dislike the initial name, a new metric needs to be created and all allocations and model objects added to that metric. Additionally all report components need to be updated to use the new metr...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted