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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

WA-100029 causing undesired data in the audit trail - make it configurable/tunable

Support ticket TS008699033. We installed 9.5 FP5 and noticed that our audit trail in the database began to expand rapidly. Ultimately it was noted that WA-100029 had added an unconditional audit of all GET operations, but the release notes did not...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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

Sequence number for event submited jobs

I have lately set up some event triggered jobs. It is a predefined job that will be submitted each time another job matching a certain name pattern is submitted. The event action looks like this: SBJ P1OPS003#DBO_U_BUYPASS_PRIZE_PAYOUT_CONTROL AS ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

Make export/import of RAD files possible

We maintain a number of different ITNCM installations and would like to be able to synchronize the RAD files across systems. At the moment the only way to do this is to cut and paste the text from the GUI. It would be less prone to error to be abl...
about 9 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Support creating application yaml from already deployed app

When importing existing cluster or when apps are deployed outside MCM, add ability to create a simple application yaml so that the user can take advantage of MCM capabilities.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration