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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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Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Inclusion of Azure Web App in drop down in Commitment Portfolio

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 2 Submitted

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
21 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Instances)

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted