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Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

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...
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...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Under review

Stop calculating previous years in development

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. We've noticed data from 4 years ago calculating in "Development" that we don't need to calculate, which are extending calculation times. We only publish ...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Overwrite Capability for Custom Calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Need overwrite capability for custom calendar. Not able to update our custom calendar after it's loaded once; you can only append dates. It's rare, but o...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Date functions should utilize custom calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Date functions are pulling based on calendar and not the custom calendar we are utilizing. For example, in our custom calendar, September (our P8) starts...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release