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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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Integration with Logging tools - Scalyr

Feature Request: Integration with Logging tools to allow easy access to/from Instana.Tools: Scalyr Splunk.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Cost of ownership / internal charge back use-case

The customer is using LeanIX for "application inventory". They would like to add a tag (which in this case would contain the unique leanix id) to the application perspectives so a correlation can be done. The request to us is to consider allowing ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Show difference tool is taking longer time to display results

Show difference tool is taking longer time to display results.time taken while removing lines before doing a diff. IBM had replied that Large config need more time and heavy hardware, when we raised one case.and IBM asked for a RFE to proceed further
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 5 Not under consideration

SELinux enabled systems not supported by TSA MP

Currently IBM policy does not support TSA MP on SELinux enabled systems as a general rule, while proper functionality of TSA MP on these systems really would depend on the specific configuration of SELinux.Since SELinux is part of the supported pl...
over 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Provide more logging info, what was done, when and why. On e2e and FLA level

It is impossible for the customer to understand what the automation engine had done automatically
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Circular ForcedDownBy relationships, DependsOn relationship & MANDATORY attribute

Requirement for circular ForcedDownBy relationships, DependsOn relationship & MANDATORY attribute. We'd like to be able to define 2 resources under TSA AM, with relationships so that either one will stop if the other fails. Under TSA MP we can...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration