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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa. Currently this type of action is blocked due to a Turbo limitation not a VMware limitation. This is needed when customers have to migr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager) topology view of properties change , and easy way to see what is the change.

The topology view of resources shown when a change of properties has been detected but on 3.5.1 we have to compare the JSON definition of the resource of two different periods in order to see what was the change, in some cases the changes are more...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Review (readonly) permission on roles definition WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). The customer is looking to have a READONLY on stories,alerts,runbooks permission for some user, on WatsonAIOPS 3.5.1

We are doing a project with Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1. During role definition was not possible to define a role that allow only view( read-only) on stories, alerts, and runbooks. The most restrictive role for alerts/stories/runbooks was allo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Nice database search for ressources on job streams and jobs on TWSd

In TWSd 8.6.2 database search on Job Streams, you can make filters on job stream workstation name and on job name.It would be very nice to have a Ressource name search field as well under the "More filters" button, including if the ressource is on...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Request for Red HAT Jboss AMQ discovey sensor

We need a TADDM discovery sensor for Red Hat Jboss AMQ similar to Websphere MQ one.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Command Line tools to remove decommissioned agents

Customer uses APM for years and he is looking for a solution on removing decommissioned, old agents in an automated way. Based on APM documentation, old, decommissioned agents disappear from APM only when these agent instances do not appear in any...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Instana Google Cloud platform support for python slim buster image

Hello, I have been trying to integrate instana with GCP and our project uses python's slim buster image. I tried it with Alpine image but a lot of our dependencies are not being supported by it, like PYPI wheels, pycryptodomex, etc Please provide ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 2 Not under consideration

REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add intelligence to an agent to avoid overcommitting its resources

What is an edge agent's ability to reject agreements if already has workloads running on it that use up its compute capacity? Assume there is an edge device with 1GB RAM, and two services that each state a 1GB requirement. After it signs an agreem...
about 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 1 Planned for future release

DASH: Google Authentication using SAML than OIDC / Liberty

I had engaged Diana to discuss with L3 manager and the respond is this configuration had not been tested end to end and hence not supported until L3 or development team can get it tested to verify that the configuration is successful. This testing...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration