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Add option to Import/Export in .xlsx format

It would be nice to import/export to .xlsx in ITP because right now everything is .csv which drops leading zeros and causes issues with formatting and integrity of the data
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Give clients the ability to remove the Hours option on the Labor Activity screen

We view everything in FTE terms and have had issues where the toggle was changed to hours and our data was inaccurate requiring re-work and re-sending of data to our reporting suite
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Requesting functionality to prevent the complete loss of data for IEN Calc object values in the event of data timeliness issues with member objects.

IEN CALC objects having frequent gaps in CDN calc objects 1. Alerting not reliable.2. the ability to "true up" the calc object values if member object data is delayed.3..the ability to see aggregate traffic values for remaining objects within the ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Apptio BI

Capability to move Dimensions between Dimensions and Alternative Dimensions
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Cloudability rightsize comment filter

Cloudability rightsize comment filter
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
8 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
8 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for GCP Kubernetes Engine (Autopilot) CUDs

Commitment Support for GCP Kubernetes Engine (Autopilot) CUDs
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration