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Apptio Demand:::Allow editable table work to persist even during other users' check-ins

Currently if user 'A' is in the midst of editing an editable table, and user 'B' does a check-in, when the screen refreshes for user 'A' at the point in time when user 'B''s check-in has completed calculating, User 'A' will lose any unsaved work i...
13 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Automatic granularity

A common challenge in TBM Studio configuration is finding and eliminating "various" throughout the model. This represents where granularity is lost through grouping down data, and it will impact allocations and reporting. This idea is to implement...
13 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data anomaly detection configuration options

The current Anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio helps identify when loaded data changes. This idea suggestion is to add more configurable options to this feature. Specifically for each dataset I would suggest being able to configure a percent ...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Guided application workflow for making new metric reportable

When learning and teaching others TBM Studio, one of the challenges is all of the manual steps required to do something that is simple in every other BI tool: Make a column of numeric values in a dataset reportable. To do this today you must: Crea...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
22 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Sticky Filters In the Rightsizing Module

When a user is using the Rightsizing module they can "Add a Filter" to find the appropriate data that they are looking for. If they are in AWS EC2 and want to naviagate to AWS EBS, those applied filters fall off. This also happens when moving betw...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

More customization to Goal Lines based on Metadata values

Performance Metrics in many visualizations allow to use Goal Lines, set their colors and units. However, this same level of customization is not possible for Goal Lines meant for Metadata values. Feature parity for them would be extremely useful.
7 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services. At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data. This change would provide additional control over da...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Submitted