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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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

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This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices API Jobs

For using IWS RESTful , webservices jobs, the user' credentials have “Basic authentication with httpsurlconnection” to connect TWS REST endpoints. Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices A...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state Instana Zendesk Ticket support for more details - Request #32621
11 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Utilization of GCP committed discounts.

Discount Inventory of Azure RIs have the information of percent utilization and the VMs which are using that RI for each RI which is good to analyze. The similar information of percent utilization and and VMs which are utilizing the GCP committed ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Connect IWS to CyberArk to allow CLI to function.

Connect IWS to CyberArk, to allow checking of password change from vault, to alleviate static passwords, used within the conman and composer CLI
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Alerts/Smart Alerts on Monitoring events

Looks like you can only get an alert for every single jvm_attach_generic error. We would only want an alert when this event reaches a certain threshold. Lets say for example, one thousand events in 30 minutes. We do expect to get a certain amount ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration