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IBM i

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i Functionality already exists

IBM PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessors Issue Detection Capability on IBM i

Provides targeted identification and diagnostic capabilities to isolate operational faults, failures, and anomalous behaviors specifically related to the IBM PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessors. Delivers critical feature alignment for multiple key cli...
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted

Real-Time OPEN Problem Counter

Maintains an accurate real-time count of all active open problems across the system to provide baseline metrics for system health monitoring and operational dashboards. Universal requirement requested by multiple key clients; applicable across alm...
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted

Categorized OPEN Problem aggregation on IBM i

Provides the ability to track and aggregate open problems by PROBLEM_CATEGORY or PROBLEM_TYPE based on relevant PROBLEM_STATUS criteria, as well as trigger event notifications when any category count exceeds a defined threshold. Core functional en...
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted

Hardware Resource Status Monitoring on IBM i

Enables the system to retrieve and list the operational status of all hardware resources, triggering automated event notifications whenever a resource deviates from its desired state (for example, STATUS <> 'OPERATIONAL') Source: QSYS2.HARDW...
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

IBM i agent to collect ILE 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....
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

Dashboard_AS400_detalles

Se quiere generar reporte PDF desde el dashboard y no existe una opción horizontal (solo vertical) y no encaja en el reporte y sale recortado. Se redujo el zoom y con los mismos resultados. Cuando se tiene un widget de eventos si se quiere ordenar...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

Enhance IBM i (AS/400) dashboard capabilities for Active Subsystems, Jobs, History Log, and Journal Details.

We have a banking customer running critical workloads on IBM i (AS/400). Instana already collects the required IBM i metrics and supports Events/Alerts, however we are currently blocked from delivering custom dashboard capabilities for IBM i orien...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration

Improve Export Reports from Instana

Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration