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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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.

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do not send sms after closed event

When an event is closed, CEM sends an SMS with the information that is is now closed. WE have no use for that information but we cannot edit it. Either make the default behavior "do not send SMS after closing event"or give us the option in the too...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM option to hide (or remove) deleted users in "Accounts" screen.

We use ITNCM to monitor the compliance of network equipment with internal hardening standards. The list of userids which are no longer in use, is not needed on a day to day basis.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

A probe for AWS Kinesis Data Streams

As of now there is a Message Bus probe that can connect to AWS through webhooks. It would be useful to have a probe or similar function to connect to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in a streamlined way (a built in consumer function).
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Future consideration

To explore SSL connection capability from Netcool Impact to Oracle DataSources

Hi Team, In our project we have made many data base connections to connect impact to respective DB and fetch data or perform some other activity using impact policy. Recently vendor has done some audits and identified some vulnerability and asked ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Future consideration

Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
almost 2 years ago in Instana 2 Not under consideration

ITNM NetAct collector missing device types

ITNM NetAct collector configuration is missing below device types of NetAct managed network elements.AAA,AXC,CBAM,CBIS,CMREPO,CSCF,CSCFLCC,CSCFVNF,DDE,DRA,DSC,ENET,EPDG,GOMS,HPHW,HSS,HSSCALLPVM,HSSFE,HSSMGMTVNFC,HSSVNF,IMSHW,IMSNFM,IMSOAM,INBL,ISB...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Heap Dump and Thread Dump options for JVM should be controlled by RBAC

As an Instana administrator I want to be able to limit Instana users ability to trigger a heap or thread dump from the Instana UI using RBAC so that I can prevent unauthorized users from doing this.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Not under consideration

Allow for SAAccount access from Impact to MSSQL server using ms jdbc driver

Allow Impact to connect to MSSQL Server using JDBC driver via a service account in Active Directory.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Create a way to time out from for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

For security reasons, we need to guarantee that the Netcool Administrator Console will close automatically after a certain period. This will make the solution suitable for more rigid security procedures.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 5 Not under consideration

Service_Name - Oracle Sensor

TADDM (Oracle sensor) currently does not store Oracle Service_Name during discovery of Oracle RAC environments.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release