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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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Cost Transparency - Custom Calendar Request to Match Fiscal Calendar

Currently when we build a query for a fiscal month, ApptioOne will show or apply the calendar month. We would like to see the option of the formula to be the Fiscal month time period and not the calendar month. So February would be  Current D...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

Automate the currency change (probe property) fetched from the Azure price sheet

Hi team, My customer would like to change the currency that is fetched from the Azure price sheet. They are using Turbo SaaS, and now it's required to do it manually through a request.Now, Turbo UI is confuse, since lets you to change the currency...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic support ECS for EC2 and/or Faragate

Itau Bank is one of the largest retail bank in Latin America is requesting to include in the Turbonomic roadmap the support for ECS (EC2 and Faragate). Itau is a heavy user of ECS environment. Environment : Primary Cloud: AWS - ~5000 AWS Accounts ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 8 Not under consideration

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

ITP Expenses Assets tab: Date Picker for Purchase/In-Service Date

Idea: Adding the possibility to select Purchase Date & In-Service Date via a Date Picker rather than manually typing the date in ITP Expenses -> Assets tab. Why: current process of filling Date manually can cause confusion, as different us...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Calculated / Dynamic Columns for Rate * Quantity

Similar to Service Demand Planning, it would be very helpful to have the ability to add calculated columns to ITP for services that are rate * quantity. Currently the dollar amount for volume driven services have to be manually calculated in ITP.&...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review