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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 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.

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Device gets automatically deleted after 3 retries if not pingable/SNMP pollable

When a device gets added to the list and by chance if the server is not pingable / SNMP pollable then as per the current design the device gets deleted from the list automatically. There are instances where the servers might be in DMZ and they mig...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Maintenance Mode to send notification when CI is put into Maintenance Mode

When a user creates a Maintenance Schedule we don't have any option of notifying the user on whether the schedule is created successfully or not. Currently there is no notification for either creating / after the schedule ends.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Include CPU Provisioned figures in the Alleviate Pressure plan

When running the Alleviate Pressure plan in Turbonomic it does not include CPU Provisioned in the output fields. For both the Cluster Merge and Optimization plans this figure is present. This would be helpful to display the pressure release in a c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Jnext Enhancement - Bring objects from DB to Plan without Jnext

1) We want to isolate any faulty FTAs from the current plan without the need of scratching it or refreshing it. If we find some FTAs are having issues after the generation of production plan which causes impact to the master, we should have some c...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Request a read-only role in Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, without delete/create permissions

We would like to request the addition of a read-only role (without delete/create permission) in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, regardless of which user created them, but nothing else
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Support of Springboot newer versions (from 2.7.0)

Hello, We recently updated our springboot framework to 2.7.0 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version of springboot shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Is a defect

Improve reliability of sending data to Instana

We have been observing regular connection failures (about 100 within a week for about a dozen services), when the Node agent was attempting to send data to the Instana servers. The error message was often related to timeouts: Error received while ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 2 Future consideration

Ability to customize & create banners in IWO

A tiny customizable banner at the top of the page would allow us to inform users when we have planned actions. It would also allow us to provide helpful information, such as if there is a temporary outage or data is missing, etc.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

DWC Tabs to be named with the name of the Task

1. When a Task is launched from System Status & Health -> All Configured Tasks, the Task is launched in the same tab replacing the Task List. 2. The tab for Task list should stay as a separate tab so that other taks can be launched from it....
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration