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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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Ability to add background images to maps

Ability to add background images to maps and be able to resize them. Currently images do not stay where they are put and don't scale with window size.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Smart driver support for ALU 7342 FGU4.10.30b

Driver update for Nokia 7342 is required to support version FGU4.10.30b
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Switch Domain in Domain Page View

Today you can switch to another a domain, if you are in the "Explore Automation Domains" view. With the new enhancement you can change the domain in this page.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Export Topology Maps to Visio

The client would like the ability to export Topology Network Views to Visio as current functionality via SVG or PNG does not provide enough detail.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

search functionality of a multi-paged device configuration

can we enable the functionality of searching a multi-paged device configuration in a single go which is currently unvailable
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

compliance - hide View Native Config and View Modelled config

We need to be able to create user account(s) with minimal permissions purely for Reporting access for a single Realm. We have been able to do this for Configuration Manager GUI by creating a security set which prevents the user from seeing the dev...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

MemberInProblemState only, if problem still exists

See PMR 19120,033,724 Today TSAMP sometimes shows Resource Groups with state "MemberInProblemState" even if all Members are online.This is caused by a resource, that was in a stuckOnline state after issues with reset, however this is hidden from t...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Predictive Insights Oracle Support

We are not a DB2 shop. Would need support for Predictive Insights running on an Oracle back end
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

Add a run cycle for an event rule

Having the equivalent of a run cycle in the job stream but for the event rules, which would allow an event to be available for instance from Monday through Friday
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

SA MP / LVM integration

looking for a functionality that would prevent you from the ability to mount the shared file system manually. the shared file systems are shared with 2 DB2 cluster nodes.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration