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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 a rm /tmp/rm$$ stanza in a rmstdlist command

because a rmstdlist command does not clean there temporary file.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

just retain the name of original schedule in the schedule userjobs

If the schedule is not in carryfroward, its diffciult to retrieve original schedule in the userjobs schedule
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Instana: Ability to disable a micrometer metric (EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues)

Currently in Instana you have the ability to either enable or disable the entire micrometer collection.You don't have the ability to disable one or some of its metrics. The EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues when dealing wit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect

the "seasonality details" page does not use the preferences. it should pick up the user preferences

when selecting details on seasonal events, the date format changes to dd-mm-yyyy. it should take on the properties set in the user preferences, so the format does not change between the main cloud event manager event list and the additional details.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Submit folder

We want to be able to submit a folder, with all its jobs/streams/dependencies into the plan. Just like you can submit an existing stream or job into the plan.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release