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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...
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

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attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Service Designer to add example json payload while designing service in CAM Service Composer.

This requirement is being asked by Citi customer , where in they want to view the example json while ordering services from MCMP. To enable this the Service designer must be provided an option to add an example json for ordering while composing th...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Enable all log streaming to Kafka external data sink

One of my customers has requested that we stream all our logs to their Kafka data repository. They have an internal regulatory requirement around this, and their top tier vendors are expected to comply. While we can technically do this now by re-d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with SolidFire | Direct VM iSCSI

My customer JPMC has been greatly expanding their use of Solidfire/direct connect iSCSI storage. As we can't see that, the environment is not anything we can manage, and leaves us out of a major opportunity area. For the customer, the use of Solid...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Implementation/description how to connect the MCM Hub with K8 services via a secure gateway

I currently try to install MCM in one of our IBM internal data centres. In this, it is not allowed to spin up a VM which is visible from the internet. As we would like to create a demo cluster which supports all target clouds, this also includes t...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

More granular approach to Scheduling permissions in ParkMyCloud

All would benefit This would allow PMC Admins the ability to provide Team Leads and Team members with more scheduling flexibility while still maintaining limits no IaaS uptime How this could work: Currently in ParkMyCloud, there is a single checkb...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Enhances Schedule Permissions and Schedule Visibility

Useful for all: Anyone can use and benefit from this Large scale implementations benefit: ParkMyCloud users and team leads in larger organizations would benefit most How it would work: 1: There needs to be a concept of Enterprise Schedules , Team ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Manual seeding option is not available

As of now we dont have the option of manually adding the devices into INM and it is not supported. With the current design this option is only available to ping based discovery. Adding the Ad-hoc device is not possible so can you guys add this fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration