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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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[Copy] Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

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.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 1 Planned for future release

Historical reports on custom fields

Currently, the TargetProcess tool does not support history reporting on custom fields. We have a custom field on entities called "Blocked," and we would like to monitor the time an entity spends in the blocked state. This functionality is crucial ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

When comparing Graphs, SevOne differentiates between Source->Destination and Destination->Source whilst VeloCloud shows the Total || Request to develop a functionality which can show the “Total” of both(Source to Des and vice versa)

When comparing the top talkers Graphs, SevOne differentiates between Source->Destination and Destination->Source whilst VeloCloud shows the Total.So looking for a functionality which can show the total of both. Otherwise manual intervention ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

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...
5 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...
5 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...
7 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 1 Planned for future release