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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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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...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Future consideration

net-disco extension Scope.Special and management subnets

Dear IBM, provide options to configure management subnet by using scope.special
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Shadow jobs between zOS and TwsD : Matching criteria same scheduled date

Between TWS 8.6 zOS and TwsD 9.1 shadow jobs, the only value for "matching criteria" is "previous". We'd like you to offer also the value "same scheduled date". Thanks for your feedback.
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
12 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
12 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

ITNCM worker failed to reconnect to DB

We would like a new timeout on the worker database connection so that the worker reconnects to the DB if the connection drops.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to define hidden/password fields for Runbooks

In NOI the Runbook component allows to define parameters in order to customize Runbooks and Automations. It is necessary for some of these parameters to represent passwords, so the confidential information is not disclosed accidentally. Currently ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration