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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Support of IMS and STP Inventory/Topology Discovery is required in ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K

ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K designed for PSCORE and CSCORE does not discover IMS (IP Multimedia) and STP (Signalling) Inventory/Topology . Enhancement of Collector is required to support same. Note: HuaweiM2K collector works on XML files received fro...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Separate PATH and user id for ASD DB2 Discovery

Currently the ASD scripts for DB2 uses db2inst id for discovery. the script paths are derived from the home directory of db2inst user id (db2 installation path) we need to seperate the user id used for discovery to something other than the db2 ins...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Handling of jobstream submissions during switchplan

During the execution of the switchplan sometimes the submit of jobstreams fails. The reason is obviuous: the Symphony file is being created at this moment and the submission cannot be handled therefore. Currently users must prevent this from happe...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Custom Template Sensor - executeCommandWithTimeout (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file

The executeCommandWithTimeout command (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file. The command we are executing does not as far as I can tell read from standard input, so I don't really understand why this is happening). We redirec...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Is a defect

Custom Template Sensor - executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error

The jython executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error. We had to redirect stderr to stdout to see anything written on stderr. The output on stderr should be logged by default.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Alignment to industry standards RFC1123 for host lenght name

A change has been applied to the IT industry standard for host name lengthThe syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952.Host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a let...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include concurrent program output in IWS job log

Output from Oracle E-Business concurrent programs, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the program output in the IWS job log can make it easier for Operations teams to...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Support selection of print style and layout

The Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently support the selection of a layout template or a print style.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Ability to manage Request Sets

Oracle E-Business requests can be combined into request sets, where Oracle Concurrent Manager executes the individual requests in the set according to the relationships defined in the set. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in currently only supports ...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Optionally allow Warning status to be accepted as success

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may complete in Oracle Concurrent Manager with a Warning status. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provide a...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration