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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...
about 3 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Improve Email Notifications for Multi-level Approval Workflow

When testing the multi-level approval workflow, we encountered the following two issues: 1. A submitter of the Cost Object will never know if the plan is returned or approved via email notification. So, the owner of that level would need to commun...
about 11 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Exporting all Line Items in the selected currency to Excel file

Hi,   We discovered that Export Financial button doesn't work as expected. This has been spotted while we were testing multi currency feature in IT Planning.   Here is my step by step description of my actions (screenshots for more clari...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time This will make analysing the net effect of any change...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Publishing IT Planning data without Check-in

It's important to have the ability to prevent triggering the calculations/check-in when we publish the IT Planning data into CT.  One may argue to hold off publication until the budget is finalized. But to get the full picture, decision maker...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Pivot Compatibility with 3 modeled metrics stacked bar charting

In Apptio Cost Transparency reporting, when creating a stacked bar chart, we can configure three modeled metrics to stack on top of each other by placing a dimension in the "Columns" section and the modeled metrics in the "Values" section of the c...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Create permission UploadDataToBranchOnly

As a Developer, I'd like to be able to upload data safe in the knowledge that I'm not going to mistakenly corrupt Trunk data by overwriting an operational dataset. As a TBMA, I want to know that it's impossible for Developers to corrupt Trunk data...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration