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

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allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add Kerberos support for TEPS to DB2 authentication

Our company has moved to Sophia for server security management and it does not support the local username/password needed to authenticate to a DB2 database. We have to maintain local accounts and keep them in sync to continue our support of TEPS.
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Under review

Add Repository Parameter for Proxy Artefact Servers

Problem:---------- The current Instana Synthetics Helm chart is using static URLs and paths to the container images. In an Enterprise Context, it is not always possible to access external Docker repos directly. Therefore teams has to use an intern...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Planned for future release

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled.

As per Application security recommendation , It is recommended resolve below mentioned appsec in SCAPM application: Please find below details for appsec in SCAPM. Vulnerability Description in Detail:It was observed that the thick client applicatio...
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation

As part of Application Security, the following Vulnerability has been raised by our security team. Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Automation needs to collect storage pools for PowerVC

The PowerVC provider creates a storage manager provider, but the underlying API (cinder) only collects cloud_volumes, cloud_volume_snapshots, cloud_volume_backups, and cloud_volume_types. We also need to collect the storage/volume pools capacity a...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Under review

Configure Event - Condition

When seeting up Event, when usinn two or more Conditions, we would like have option OR, and under Condition section for Operator, we would like have option "is not", "does not contains"
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration