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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 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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Using Kustomize to Simplify Client Configuration

Kustomize is a declarative management tool that allows users to create different variants or configurations of a base yaml. A tool like this can assist our clients configure our product during the installation process.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

IWA - Dynamic Agent job persistance on "no resource found" error

Add the ability to define jobs that run on a dynamic agent to not error if there is no resource found to run the job. Currently, if all agents defined for the job are down, the job results in an error and must be manually rerun. Add the ability fo...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Performance alarm storage in TNCP database

Currently performance alarms are triggered from threshold configuration in TNCP. However the data of what has been raised, when, etc are not stored. We can only get current snapshot of alarms, not history. Customer has a requirement for a report, ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Administrator permission should not be required on Windows

Programs such as conman and composer should not require Administrator permission on Microsoft Windows.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

#cpfield Improving the performance of API connections between Turbonomic and Azure Plan API.

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic supports Azure Plan API, but the customer says the response is too late. The customer is consi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Not under consideration

Instrument Sangria GraphQL library

We use the sangria library to expose a graphql server written in Scala, running on the JVM. We would like to be able to use Instana to see the details of the graphql call, similar to how Instana can instrument other graphql libraries.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Update Policies UX for better usability

Enhancement 1 – Policies “Suggested” CNEA has 60K+ suggested options for enhanced Netcool alarming The 60K+ options do not take into account existing development contained within Netcool (Scope ID, XnY, Suppression etc.). Therefore, to the untrain...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration