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Providing the functions of POC(Post-Quantum Cryptography) in ACE13 or later

Our customer in financial services in Japan is using ACE in their mission critical banking system. They're very sensitive about the security functions of the products they're using. The customer says that they want to know if ACE13 or later versio...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Alternative Identity Provider Support for IBM Concert on OpenShift (LDAP & Local Users)

Solution Value Statement Customers deploying IBM Concert on OpenShift often lack OpenID Connect with Keycloak. Providing alternative authentication options such as LDAP or local user management ensures broader adoption, simplifies onboarding, and ...
27 days ago in Concert 2 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Unapproved Software Detection and Catalog Reconciliation

Solution Value Statement Enables Concert to detect and classify unapproved software across endpoints and reconcile discovered applications against enterprise-approved catalogs. This improves visibility, reduces shadow IT risk, and supports complia...
2 months ago in Concert 0

A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Problem Description Who is affected: Support engineers, SREs, and operations teams managing complex application environments. Current process: Status visibility is fragmented across tools.Troubleshooting requires manual data gathering and environm...
8 months ago in Concert 0 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
11 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 5 Future consideration

Support CBOM Format for Certificate Upload and Algorithm Metadata Integration

Solution Value Statement Enable IBM Concert to ingest certificate data using the CBOM (Cryptographic Bill of Materials) format, including algorithm metadata, to improve automation, interoperability, and cryptographic posture visibility across ente...
about 1 month ago in Concert 0 Under review

Add Infrastructure Inventory

This idea would be similar to how you have access_points for certs For our use case with ingesting certs: We have windows servers with many keystore locations on each server The same cert can be included in many of the keystores across many server...
7 months ago in Concert 0 Under review