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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 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...

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Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 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

src stops too early at system shutdown / reboot

during shutdown a linux server we want to exclude the node using /etc/init.d/rcx.. scripts but src was killed as soon as shutdown begins so we have no chance to stop our applications before.
over 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 5 Not under consideration

MFA integration with TADDM

Hi Team, We would like MFA integration with TADDM Application and we are using LDAP configuration
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

On executable job the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration.

On executable job, the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration. We are converting Control-m to IWs , and numbering the argument box will facilitate when you have to do some alteration on a parm. Exampl...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring mainframe call

Our user need to monitor mainframe call but at this time we can't instrumenting the technology(mainframe library)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Create IBM Cloud Functionality with TSAMP

TSAMP is currently not supported to run and installed on IBM Cloud.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Future consideration