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ACE/IIB

Provide a deployment option to allow new applications and message flows to be deployed in a stopped state, giving teams control over activation timing and preventing unintended message processing during pre-go-live deployments.

Currently, when deploying a BAR file in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), any new applications or message flows are automatically started, with no option to defer their startup as part of the deployment process. While redeploying existing applicat...
12 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Submitted

adding IBM ACE application tag to the alerts

Instana is currently sending alerts for IBM ACE message flow stoppages; however, the alerts do not include the corresponding application name. This makes it difficult to identify which application the stopped message flow belongs to. Including the...
19 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Submitted

Input messages metrics for various type of flow nodes (MQ / HTTP / File) under IBM ACE Message Flow

Under Infrastructure the IBM ACE Message Flow view shows the Flow Nodes associated with the Message Flow. There is only one graph showing input messages metrics for the whole message flow. We would also like to have the same input messages metrics...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Future consideration

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Planned for future release

Enable Custom CDC (Change Data Capture) Channel subscription notification on Salesforce Input Connector node.

For one of the project requirements, we need an enhancement to the existing Salesforce Input Connector node to be able to subscribe to Custom CDC (Change Data Capture) Channel subscription notification. This subscription should be allowed when cus...
2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Future consideration

Need to monitor IBM ACE Integration Node status

Dear Colleagues, Our customer is considering move from Tivoli Monitoring to Instana. They actively monitor ACE Integration node status (Broker) with situations which raise an event once the state is unexpected, for example: ( Broker Status != Star...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Planned for future release

Display all Message Volumes

Currently it is possible to view the volume of data that is processed via Integration Servers in Analyse Infrastructure at a Flow Level. I believe it would be beneficial if it was possible to expand this on to the Customer Dashboards to provide a ...
7 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Future consideration

Change ACE autodiscovery to work for non-running processes

The autodiscovery for ACE currently works by looking for running ACE processes.Autodiscovery should discover all ACE installations, and all ACE entities (node, integration servers, message flows etc) whether or not they are running at the time. Al...
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Planned for future release

Instana ACE Tracing Should Not Modify MQ RFH2 Header or Message ID

Problem statement: Enabling ACE tracing for Instana introduces changes to MQ message structure (e.g., RFH2 header, CCSID, and traceparent field). This behavior breaks message compatibility with existing systems expecting unmodified MQ headers. Enh...
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Not under consideration

Adding functionality for correlating ACE services with the backend.

Hi Team, This AHA request is linked to IBM Support case TS019666166 regarding unmonitored components in our infrastructure. We request product enhancement to provide visibility and correlation for these components within Instana The component in q...
9 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Not under consideration