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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 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 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...
7 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...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Collapse all view folders at once

I have many views and view folders. The list gets very chaotic as folders are opened. I would like to have a button or feature to collapse/expand all folders at any level from the very top as well as sub-folders. At minimum, the ability to quickly...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Keep parent/child entities together on roadmap views

I would like to be able to group related entities on a Roadmap view. If a roadmap contains parent entities and their children (or another related entity), there is no way I've seen to get them to stay together, which makes it visually very confusi...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Insights on usage

It would be nice to have some tracking information regarding the usage of some views/reports/dashboards/boards. Every so often, we review the left navigation in ATP and try to minimize the length of it. Knowing that views are used a lot vs. never ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 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

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration