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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

net-disco extension Scope.Special and management subnets

Dear IBM, provide options to configure management subnet by using scope.special
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
11 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

New ITNM collector to support the discovery of Huawei U2020

Hi Team,Globe has commission a newer version of Huawei U2020. We need ITNM to discover this device, but ITNM doesn't have a collector to enable discovery. Details of the EMS:- Product Name U2020Product Model U2020 V300R019Product Version U2020 V30...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices API Jobs

For using IWS RESTful , webservices jobs, the user' credentials have “Basic authentication with httpsurlconnection” to connect TWS REST endpoints. Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices A...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Topology, Runbooks and CNEA Databases in Hybrid DR setup should be replicated automatically

Currently Automatic Data Replication is only supported in Full Cloud statck Deployment of Event Manager in Watson AIOPS, but In Hybrid Implementation still requires manual effort to back and restore process to sync two Clusters. Since fundamentall...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration