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Data Connectivity (Datalink)

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Don't reset to page 1 after exiting from connection group

Let's say I'm on page 3 of connection groups. I open a connector group and work on it. Upon leaving the connector group/discarding the work, I should go back to the page I was on (page 3 in this example), rather than resetting to page 1. We've to ...
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Connection Groups in Datalink should be searchable

We have 15 Connection groups in Datalink. We have to flip through pagination to search for a connection group, because only 10 results are displayed at once. I think it's very primitive to not have a search function the way we have currently in th...
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
24 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Business or work day of month option for scheduling

(This is in relation to earlier idea https://community.apptio.com/idea/work-day-schedule, which was marked incorrectly as delivered.) Please add a recurrence option when scheduling connectors to use business or work days for monthly schedules. Be...
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Connectivity into Apptio via AWS

Hi I know Apptio is standalone application, and it could be possibly hosted anywhere. Now it's hosted on AWS. I work in large organization, and we are also using AWS, which is trusted partner for us. It makes it much easier from data governanc...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to pull a list of all datalink connectors and the URL details

I would like to be able to export a list of all our datalink connectors and some data about them, like what the Source URL is
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted