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Apptio Demand:::Allow editable table work to persist even during other users' check-ins

Currently if user 'A' is in the midst of editing an editable table, and user 'B' does a check-in, when the screen refreshes for user 'A' at the point in time when user 'B''s check-in has completed calculating, User 'A' will lose any unsaved work i...
2 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Automatic granularity

A common challenge in TBM Studio configuration is finding and eliminating "various" throughout the model. This represents where granularity is lost through grouping down data, and it will impact allocations and reporting. This idea is to implement...
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data anomaly detection configuration options

The current Anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio helps identify when loaded data changes. This idea suggestion is to add more configurable options to this feature. Specifically for each dataset I would suggest being able to configure a percent ...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
18 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to set up/receive Budget Alerts

The ability to set up and receive budget alert emails is not enabled in the Gov Cldy version. It would be beneficial to be able to set up alerts to compare actual spending to a defined budget/forecast. Would it be possible to make the budget alert...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
1 day ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted