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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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TADDM and Cyberark integration

An Integration between CyberArk and TADDM, so that CyberArk provides access lists to TADDM for discoveries.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Integration of MCM with BMC Remedy

Lots of our customer user BMC Remedy as ITSM tool, need direct integration of MCM with BMC Remedy to push Incident data. Currently we are working for a Large Telecom client which runs a BMC heavy shop from ITSM perspective. We are looking for a wo...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck

Add ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Depict AWS Savings Plan Data for EC2

We need Turbonomic to account for existing EC2 Savings Plans when making recommendations to ensure maximum utilization of these Savings Plans.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability for the optional use of Key Based Authentication

We have a business use case around key based authentication. We have a group that would like to provide data for Power VM probe but are having issues with AD base authentication as they use key based for the rest of there processes. We would like ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
5 months ago in Instana / .NET 2 Planned for future release

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release