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Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

TS019982564 - add support for SFTP protocol to File Transfer job

After back and forth with support it was confirmed that I won't be able to create file transfer job and use SFTP protocol. The protocol has been introduced almost 30 years ago and is de-facto standard used by our external partners. Please add supp...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add Paint Brush Icon to "Customer Status" Field in Target process

I would like to propose adding a paint brush icon to the Customer Status field in Apptio Targetprocess. This visual enhancement would help users quickly identify and differentiate the status of a customer at a glance, improving usability and visua...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Under review

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Support/Status/View: Displays the status of all running applications, services, and microservices in a topology view, indicated by color codes (green/yellow/red). Selecting any node or application displays the connected and affected services. Righ...
6 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 4 Needs more information

Bulk Edit for Versioned Tables

Adding the ability to bulk edit versions (create/delete) would allow for easier management of table versioning in Apptio.
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey.

Sankey Diagrams / Three Object Limitation – the ability to view the value chain from cost source all the way through to the product offering understanding the major steps in the journey. I point you to what other financial analysis tools can do he...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Under review

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.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Needs more information