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Include date fields in the Bulk Edit screen

It is possible to edit fields in bulk in TargetProcess by selecting multiple entities (shift-click) and hitting "Edit 00 items". However, date fields (like Planned Start Date) are not editable through this screen. The date fields should be editabl...
22 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

IBM i agent to collect ILE/RPG/CL/Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light)

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Define which entities can be added from main "add button" in left menu

I would like to be able to narrow down the list of entities that can be created from the add button in the left menu of Targetprocess. For instance we don't want to let users create time records from this menu, because they should only be created ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Conditional fields in Quick Add form

We are using features in Targetprocess and depending on the region where a feature is created, we need to have different fields to be filled in the Quick Add form. On the one hand we want to show/hide fields based on certain conditions and on the ...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration