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Dependency visualisation

In case of an online or offline request the operator should get an visualisation of everything the automation will do (starting parents, subtask, etc.) This should be a confirmation panel to help the operator to decide if he realy want to do this ...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Better integration of SA z/OS in operator console

Better integration of SA z/OS in operator console
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

override dependencies

override dependency like in SA z/OS
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

lssam should display correct NodeName which was defined by preprpnode

Currently, lssam pulls its node names from the NodeNameList of the IBM.PeerNode resource attributes but only uses the shortname.This can lead to different NodeNames: lsrpnode, lsrsrc,... show the defined hostname in the long versionlssam shows a s...
almost 13 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Encrypted EIF-Events

Encrypted EIF events would greatly enhance the security of the product.Why: Today it is possible to send faked EIF-Events to the SAAM. This could bring the SAAM Server to react in an unsuitable way.
about 14 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

[Copy] Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers.  This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degr...
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Instana more flexible and agile with flexible the installation ports

Customers from Banking using McAfee antivirus which can block Instana-Backend and Instana-Backend cannot installed. The issues are McAfee using port 8081 which is same with Instana-Backend using port 8081 too.So, the ideas are Can the Instana-Back...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Improving Event Mechanism

1) When an event occurs, customer wants to see the detailed information about how the event occurred among the details. For example, an event related to disk capacity occurs above 50%, but they don't know if it occurred at 70% or 80%. 2) Customer ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Report offset lag for kafka consumers

I created a library/custom utility that monitors the kafka consumers and records the offset lags across our event driven architecture. It is further integrated with LogDNA and slack which helps to send alerts to the squads for any offset lags in a...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to operate with timestamps to create thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss timestamps in threshold functionality. Our customer uses them with Tivoli Monitoring and they're interested in implementation of the same functionality in Instana. Below, there are the 3 examples of such ITM sit...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration