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In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Insights on usage

It would be nice to have some tracking information regarding the usage of some views/reports/dashboards/boards. Every so often, we review the left navigation in ATP and try to minimize the length of it. Knowing that views are used a lot vs. never ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Future consideration

Sort field names in the Hide/Rename step of the Transform pipeline

The Hide/Rename step should either have an option to sort field name ascending or descending, or it should just auto sort ascending. When a long list of field names are hidden, it make sit challenging to scroll through to see if a specific field i...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Alert when trying to edit at the same time

Display an alert when someone attempts to edit something simultaneously with you. This helps prevent overwriting and losing content. E.g. Business mappings, visualisations...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Static visualisation

Enable the option for a static visualization, allowing the visualizations to retain data e.g. for the last 7 days, 30 days, or the past year, even when the date is changed.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Financial Year under 'Pick a Time Period' in Cloudability Native Dashboards & Reporting

Cenitex have requested a 'Financial Year' time filter for reporting in Cloudability Native Dashboards & reports. Attached screenshot of where it'd be applied. This small addition would be a huge productivity increase for many finance teams who...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Provide and option to adjust the display names for Departments and Projects dropdown in the ITP UI based on client's naming convention to make it more user friendly

We are facing a situation where we need to use two different hierarchies within Planning: a regional hierarchy and a product line hierarchy. The product line hierarchy will also be used for the approval flow, with product line owners and product m...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to ensure targets also get filtered by project hierarchy

Currently, there is an option only to set/view targets at department level. We need an option to give or at least show Top-down-targets for both projects and departments. Currently, project owners see the full target value at each level within the...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration