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Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

IBM i agent to collect ILE/RPG/CL/Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light)

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Backing up of Apptio BI Reports

Hi , my suggestion is that thru report collections to include also filters and insights meaning to include 100% of the information of Apptio BI reports in the export Json file . maybe with a way to export these thru an API (for further automatizat...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert when trying to edit at the same time

Display an alert when someone attempts to edit something simultaneously with you. This helps prevent overwriting and losing content. E.g. Business mappings, visualisations...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted