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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 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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EoS / EoL Reporting on all Cisco and ALU devices in ITNCM database

A function to provide a Reports on a per Realm or Vendor / Type basis,showing all hardware and OS components, and their End of Support and End of Life status. This would be based on vendor published information.The output of this feature should al...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Vulnerabilitiy reporting on all Cisco and ALU devices in ITNCM database

Description: A function to provide a Reports on a per Realm or Vendor / Type basis, showing all hardware and OS related vulnerabilities. This would be based on Vendor published information.The output of this feature should also be available for ex...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

TDWC current plan add issues

 When adding an application into the current plan VIA the TDWC there is no way of changing the jobs in the app. For example- if you need to change a workstation we can't as it don't list the jobs in the app when doing the add operation. Also  Yo...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Unable to do Simple Job Restart with TDWC

When using the TDWC we should have the options of simple job restart in the drop down menu for job recovery processing. Only have fast restart available. this is essentially procedural as we can “ready” the job as such there is a viable work aroun...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Flag to avoid using login credentials from System Properties

Flag to avoid UOW considering login credentials from System Properties
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

ITNCM compliance- a way to tell which extractions are called by which definitions

We want to be able to see which Extractions are called by the Policies, Rules and Definitions - so that we know which ones to copy to the production system. It looks like the only way to do this is to open each individual Definition to see if it c...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BW - tracing

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
3 months ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Show Context Menu when right click in time chart

Thanks for providing the great feature "Download a time chart as a CSV file"! https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-265#download-a-time-chart-as-a-csv-file I used this feature, and it's a very nice feature, but...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

kubectl instana plugin should support license verify feature

Same as docker "instana license verify", kubectl instana plugin should allow to verify the license during the installation and later. One of the customers (Freedom mobile) asked about that feature
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration