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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.
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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In IWS Scheduling Factory submitJobStream add Variable Table parameter.

submitJobSream only supports jsname, start time and alias. For my needs passing a Variable table is required.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic rebuild topological view after discovery

After run of discovery we need the automatic update of topological view for include new devices discovered. See also further datail in reported case.
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" event and able to search node name with exact match

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" subscribed event and able to search node name with exact match.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

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

group of calls "Without log message"

They want the possibility to group the calls "Without log message" in Analytics.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Interface types are not distinguished in manual connection configuration

During the configuration of manual connections in layer 1, the problem has been when creating connections in layer 1 and the confusion occurs because the devices in the discovery have the same Display Label in different types of interfaces, for ex...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists