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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Allow ABEND of FAILED jobs in USERJOBS to be marked as SUCC or CANCELED

Starting 9.4 when a JOB gets put into USRJOBS Operations cannot cancel or mark is as SUCC when it fails. Hence in every console it shows up as an issue even after the issue is resolved. This can make the automated or manual management of batch dif...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Cancel a "cancel pending" state in the current plan

Possible to Cancel a Job in "Cancel Pending" state in the current plan because for some reason, a couple of hour after the switch plan, we want it finally to run.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Support for amazoncorretto:19-alpine

We are currently using amazoncorretto:18-alpine docker images for our application builds and we started an upgrade to a new version of gradle plus a new corretto version (amazoncorretto:19-alpine) but then Instana stopped working (no more applicat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2

Add basic monitoring capabilities for IEAM services on edge devices

In case of problems with the applications/services on the edge devices (deadlocks or malfunctions), IEAM is not able to detect the issue or restart the service if the docker container is up and running. This is a big issue for administrators of th...
over 3 years ago in Edge Application Manager 2 Not under consideration

Ability to save & restore, clone Event & Alert configurations or create templates

Use cases: - When Events and Alerts are created, users would benefit to have ability to save configuration as a template to use as baseline for other events - save configuration to be able to revert back to after trying some changes - as a work ar...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration