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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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Need to understand the best recommendation on how TADDM needs to be integrated with JIRA ITSM or IBM Control Desk needs to be integrated with JIRA ITSM for best possible use of the CMDB and asset management

Currently customer is planning to use IBM solution for discovery and Configuration/asset management though their ITSM solution is JIRA. So looking for the best possible recommendation from IBM side on the integration architecture with JIRA ITSM.
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Properties that display when the number of users will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent users in webgui

. Is there any restriction of user log in if it exceeds concurrent user access count?
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Qualify TSAMP 4.1.04 on Centos 7.4 and Later

Referencing Salesforce Case - TS001479603 We would like to have TSAMP qualified for Centos 7.4 and later. Based on DB2 AESE Compatibility Report - https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduc...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration