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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Scrolling API support for Message Bus probe

The only method available in MCP R4.0 to handle an alarm query which returns results greater than 10,000 records is to utilise the scrolling capability.The current version (10) of the Message Bus supports pagination - however there is a restrictio...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under consideration

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

APM WebLogic Agent Transaction tracking to include "GridLink" DataSources

Currently Transaction tracking by WebLogic Agent doesn't support to monitor "GridLink" datasources and is limited to show only Generic datasources in JDBC Connections. Customers are intrested to get details w.r.t GridLink too.
over 2 years ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Need support of Openshift ppcle64 for Predictive Insight

Need support for Container based solution on Power Server ppc64le for Openshift 4.x
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Enable functionality to ITNM Network Views to add annotations to maps

ability to add annotations to Network View maps
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Resynch Policies in Memory without Restart

We have experienced corruption in the [ /opt/IBM/tivoli/impact/etc/SERVER_policylist ] files between cluster nodes on several occations. In order to resolve this we have been forced to do the “createPolicyList.sh” or “rebuildPolicyList.sh” and bot...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

PI adaptive model definations

Predictive Insights product is not able to deal with adaptive input stream
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

TDWC Workload Designer to integrate validfrom dates on job streams

Integrate job stream valid-from dates into Workload Designer such that all versions of a job stream are all opened and worked with together as one object in the UI. In the Working List the Job Stream would be a tree of valid-from versions. Functio...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Impersonation support for MCM APIs

I'd like to manage and provision software to a managed cluster through our MCM hub as the user requesting the software to prevent security issues arising from elevated privilege. For example, charts or operators that are configured to install to n...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration