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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...
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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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

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Policy storage without server name

Please provide an option to allow for storage of $IMPACT_HOME/policy/*.ipl without the server name being forced into the policy name. This will allow for simplified storage of common policies shared amongst clusters or multiple clusters within ver...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Launching configuration from the TEPS JWS client using Open Webstart

In case of Open Webstart possibility you should be able to configure and open all the option that ITM TEPS console has.
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under 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

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

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

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration