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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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.

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override dependencies

override dependency like in SA z/OS
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

lssam should display correct NodeName which was defined by preprpnode

Currently, lssam pulls its node names from the NodeNameList of the IBM.PeerNode resource attributes but only uses the shortname.This can lead to different NodeNames: lsrpnode, lsrsrc,... show the defined hostname in the long versionlssam shows a s...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Encrypted EIF-Events

Encrypted EIF events would greatly enhance the security of the product.Why: Today it is possible to send faked EIF-Events to the SAAM. This could bring the SAAM Server to react in an unsuitable way.
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Instana more flexible and agile with flexible the installation ports

Customers from Banking using McAfee antivirus which can block Instana-Backend and Instana-Backend cannot installed. The issues are McAfee using port 8081 which is same with Instana-Backend using port 8081 too.So, the ideas are Can the Instana-Back...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

ACE & Datapower to Database transaction tracing

Currently ACE/Datapower to Database(Oracle 12c/19c) transaction tracing is not available. It is required to track the transaction end-to-end. In Vi there are many integrations where ACE/Datapower is calling Database either via stored procedure cal...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Memory Limits Allocation

Issue: Case numberTS014283635 We are receiving alerts from eks_commhub_prod_east_2 cluster stating that the below mentioned nodes are breaching the Memory Limits Allocation. ip-10-45-30-219.us-east-2.compute.internalip-10-45-31-81.us-east-2.comput...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI. Azure appears to be the only one that does. The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to monitor Db2 instances with DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanism

Per the documentation, the DB2 sensor does not support DB2 instances that use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanisms. The customer that I'm working with is getting ready to switch their database over to use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication. In...
6 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Improving Event Mechanism

1) When an event occurs, customer wants to see the detailed information about how the event occurred among the details. For example, an event related to disk capacity occurs above 50%, but they don't know if it occurred at 70% or 80%. 2) Customer ...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration