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Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

kubectl instana plugin should support license verify feature

Same as docker "instana license verify", kubectl instana plugin should allow to verify the license during the installation and later. One of the customers (Freedom mobile) asked about that feature
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound services, such as sending an outbound MQ, or calling another Web Services which resides in a distributed system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Display summarized mainframe CPU consumption of all JDBC calls to Db2 on z/OS of a single frent-end request, and Instana dashboard can sort by this summarized CPU time.

Mainframe CPU consumption is critical data for application monitoring, currently Instana on z/OS can collect CPU time from SMF data for each JDBC call to Db2 on z/OS and all these data have been sent to Instana. It will be very valuable and helpfu...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration