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Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

When creating a DWC or MDM Database on MS SQL Server, the dbuser is ignored

When I run configureDb.vbs script to crate and populate either the DWC or MDM Database, the dbuser is ignored. cscript configureDb.vbs --work_dir C:/temp --rdbmstype MSSQL --dbname DWCDB --dbuser iwsdbuser --dbpassword ***** --dbhostname whaleshar...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

AI software manufacturing for every well known professional application software job assistance

Artificial intellegence software manufacturing for every current wellknown professional application software job assistance according to requirement mentioned in dialogue box or in new window of current job application The AI application software ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Application Batch process Monitoring

Instana Application monitoring services are not reporting the data statistics as expected. Basically the service in question is a database one which is running on DB2 db. Whenever a batch execution happens there's a bunch of calls being made by th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

NOI Scope Based Policy Table

US Cellular has requested to make the Scope Based Policy details to be exposed in a database so that they can build a dynamic dashboard to show the alarm reduction metrics.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists