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Ability to mass submit Job Streams from an archived plan or forecast

From the Dynamic Workload Console, we would like the ability to select multiple Job Streams from an archived plan or forecast and resubmit them into the current plan, while maintaining dependencies, as if they were scheduled into the current plan....
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
29 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

pouvoir utiliser JSUNTIL et OPENS dans une meme regle de planification.

une application ETA a besoin de créer un schedule qui verifie ce qui suit: le schedule peut se declencher entre 22h et 03h du matin. Le schedule doit se déclencher seulement sur reception de fichier etzjo0aa.etzaaqq* Si le fichier n'est pas arrivé...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add compatibility matrix for plugins with IBM Workload automation

Hi Team, Currently, there is no compatibility matrix for cyberark plugin version compatibility with IBM workload automation versions. Hence, it is difficult to check and plan for TWS-CyberArk integration. Please create a compatibility matrix that ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

DWC to support proper high-availability

We have a load balancer in front of multiple DWC instances. The problem is that session affinity is required because of how the DWC stores user sessions. So, when one of the instances needs to be restarted, all logged in users to that instance are...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration