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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?
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Way to provide feedback if probable cause is not the really not the cause, so next time, system should not mark it as probable cause

can we offer a feedback, if probable cause is not the really not the cause, so next time, system should not mark it as probable cause
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Enable SSL configuration for Oracle database connections

We had planned to deploy IWS 9.5FP2 (MDM and DWC) into Amazon cloud however our environment is mandated to use SSL connectivity to RDS instances. Currently only DB2 supports SSL which is not an option for us as Oracle RDS must be used in our AWS e...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Make FTAs secure - fix conman security gaps

FTAs include conman which can submit ad-hoc commands to other workstations with the sbd command under the scope allowed by the local security file. A compromised FTA may modify its own security file at will and submit any commands to other worksta...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Custom keyword for ELK

I would like to have the possibility of changing the keyword that Instana uses when redirecting to Kibana The problem is that Instana uses keyword that Kibana does not find, so when redirecting no machine is found.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

On executable job the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration.

On executable job, the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration. We are converting Control-m to IWs , and numbering the argument box will facilitate when you have to do some alteration on a parm. Exampl...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release