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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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Encrypted EIF-Events

Encrypted EIF events would greatly enhance the security of the product.Why: Today it is possible to send faked EIF-Events to the SAAM. This could bring the SAAM Server to react in an unsuitable way.
over 13 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Self-service cost adjustment feature to the custom cost metric

Implement a self-service cost adjustment feature to the custom cost metric that allows users to update themselves, eliminating the need to create a support case and providing immediate, accurate cloud cost visibility.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 0 Submitted

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory: We currently only have resource inventory for EC2, EBS, S3, RDS and Redshift. Some of our M&As are big OpenSearch, ElastiCache and Memory DB users so the resource information would be help...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Upload Template for PIs and TIs

Currently, our teams are working on setting up their ARTs in ATP, and we would like to support them by providing import templates for Planning Intervals and Team Iterations. However, Importfing of PIs is currently not possible/ supported. Is there...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Change Default Setting of Roles and Permissions for newly created Entities

Hi, We are currently in the process of continuously developing our Apptio Targetprocess Instance and with that creating new entities. Since this is a continuous process, a significant security issue is created as the standard setting for new roles...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

"~/appservertools/startAppServer.sh -directclean" option in the startup script iwa_init_<Installed User>

Hi Team, I was going through the script iwa_init_<Installed User> to set up the automatic start and stop for the OS reboots (specifically post OS patching). Earlier we faced issue with DB connection post OS patching. So we had to start the L...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis between Forecast & Actuals at a line item level

1.Users want to see Variance Analysis between Forecast & Actuals at a line item level. Which means they want to see what lines in General Ledger are contributing to actuals vs what lines in forecast were used to compare. 2. We need invoice lin...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

User Experience - To get feedback from the user

  We are getting feedback from our new users via email by asking the simple questions whether the report met their expectations and if they have any ideas for enhancing or improving the reports. We are suggesting that if the Apptio can build ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Unit Driver Names Guardrail for uniqueness across project

Currently, there is functionality that warns and prevents users from naming Unit Drivers (Allocation Lines) from an object to other objects using the same name.  This functionality seems to work within a single object only.  However, the...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

The actuals to be distributed across separate tabs based on a custom dimension

The actuals to be distributed across separate tabs based on a custom dimension. Unique numbers are assigned to our plan line items, and all actual line items are tagged accordingly. Currently, actuals are imported using these unique numbers, which...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release