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Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
6 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

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....
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

IBM i agent to collect CL 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....
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Planned for future release

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

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

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

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Planned for future release

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Planned for future release

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Future consideration