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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.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Substring broker function

Implement a broker substring function so that parts of a variable can be used in job definitions. This feature is available on all competitive products. F.e. ${substring:MYVAR,1,10} Get the first 10 characters of the variable MYVAR.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Estimated runtime on jobs that run with an alias

The estimasted run time is not calculated for jobs that run with an alias, it is calculated using the original job name in the job_statistics_v database view. We have a number of standard jobs accross different applications that we run with an ali...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

GUI for loading MIB files

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: User needs to upload MIBs and process them without CLI access. Description: Need ability to provide users with GUI to upload MIBs for use in SNMP MIB Browser and poll definition creation.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

'Schedule Report' option on reports to email the report adhoc or on schedule

On Reports have an option to send the report (history or sql) as an email. It sends it once or schedules it as job to run as required (weekly etc). Similar to how we use the Batchcli feature, but DWC does it all for you from a few clicks.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

modifying the content of job into the planning

HiIn IWS z/OS we can change the content of job into the planning before it runs, and also after it runs when we we want to rerun a job. or when a customer ask us to do a modification.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Support multiple PIDs on IP:Port

TADDM needs to be create unique dependencies between App Servers, even when they share the same IPAddress:PortNumber. Many AppServer types, especially DBs and Application Servers will share IPAddress:PortNumbers on a Computer System. This will cau...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

HA capabilities for Predictive Insights

We are expecting to implement High availability capabilities for Predictive Insights.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Customer should be abble to choose severity and return code for some message like EQQ0590W

We request to permit to the product to put OR RC=4 OR RC=8 for some messages and then to handle correctly the corresponding behaviour, depending from Customer needs
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support of IMS and STP Inventory/Topology Discovery is required in ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K

ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K designed for PSCORE and CSCORE does not discover IMS (IP Multimedia) and STP (Signalling) Inventory/Topology . Enhancement of Collector is required to support same. Note: HuaweiM2K collector works on XML files received fro...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Separate PATH and user id for ASD DB2 Discovery

Currently the ASD scripts for DB2 uses db2inst id for discovery. the script paths are derived from the home directory of db2inst user id (db2 installation path) we need to seperate the user id used for discovery to something other than the db2 ins...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration