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'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

MFT: Current Transfers should show source and destination file

We would like to have both the source file AND destination file on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard in the 'Current Transfers' section. Currently the 'Current Transfers' table in the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' das...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the ability to monitor IBM MQ Alias Queues

The customer uses Alias Queues for the IBM MQ applications. Within Instana, Alias Queues are not monitored. So, the customer has no visibility into what's happening within their applications. For example, when they look at the Traces going through...
19 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
10 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Add tracing capability for MQ MFT

My customer wants to trace the file transfers in MQ
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
14 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Want to be able to configured an availabilityZone for all queue managers on a server

Customers are looking for an easy way to setup Availability Zones for their IBM MQ Queue Managers. The environment is setup with RDQM. Therefore, they want to see the Queue Managers independently from the Host Agent. And, they want to put all of t...
15 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted