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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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Devices imported from ITNM shouldn't need to autodiscover

When devices are imported via the NMEntityMapper from ITNM the information needed for import is already provided by the API. In many cases the information gathered via snmp by ITNM is either more accurate or the autodiscover driver doesn't gather ...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

MessageBus probe to configure tokenEndpointURI port different from subscribeRequestURI port

We have a device to use different port for tokenEndpointURI and subscribeRequestURI . Currently MessageBus probe can not handle this. We would like to see MessageBus probe able to configure the different port for tokenEndpointURI and subscribeRequ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

DWC - Add ability to have query multiple options or have negative criteria

Add ability to have query multiple options or have negative criteria on monitor workload section of the Dynamic Workload Console.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Possibility to query Service Now or job information and to implement logic on EDWA actions

We have a blanket approval to CANCEL or RERUN few jobs upon failure and incident ticket should not be created for such cases Certain high priority jobs require a P2 ticket to be created on failure. We have blanket approvals to NOT create a inciden...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TDWC to have ability to update more than one object simultaneoulsy e.g. like the TEXT EDIT function provided by TWS Webadmin

Horizont TWS webadmin has a text edit feature which allows multiple database objects to be edited at the same time. This may be multiple jobs, regardless of type or associated server. Likewise, multiple jobstreams regardless of the server the jobs...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support calendars in folders with datecalc

Hi team, We need IWA tool should support calendars in folders with datecalc which will help to expand solution for various market. Since we need to modify the holiday calendar for different market. For example :- We need to pass 5th working day ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Integration with data federation solutions (Spectrum/Noobaa) to more holistically manage and move stateful workloads

Client's are interested in data federation whenever app management/movement comes up. Would like to see a level of integration with both the IBM (Spectrum) and RH (https://www.noobaa.io/) capabilities to make movement of the associated app data se...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Russian language support

In Russia and post-Soviet countries Russian language is very popular and mostly used in organisations for Incident records and internal collaboration. Please add Russian language support for AI Manager's capabilities such as Similar Incidents and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Job/Stream dependency based on message/api to support interactivity with Cloud environments like AWS and Azure

We would like to have Workload Automation jobs to be reactive/dependent on jobs/activities in the cloud so that after getting a message via message queue or an API call a dependent job/stream on the IWS side will start. Similar to how a file depen...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration