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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Create Driver for Cisco Wireless Link Controllers 5508

Please create managed SmartModels for:Vendor: CiscoType: Wireless Lan ControllerModel: 5508OS: 7.2.111.3 and 7.4.110.0
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule.

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) I...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

nco_pa_remove_entry

At the moment it is possible to add entries in the nco_pa by using the commandline tool nco_pa_add_entry, but it is not possible to remove an entry. Therefore we need for automatic changes with ansible a toll wich removed an existing entry from th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Information on jobs waiting on parallel server limits

Would like a report of jobs waiting on workstation parallel servers and how long they were waiting before starting. This would facilitate analysis of jobstream delays and identifying bottlenecks in the nightly batch.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Actionalble Seasonality - Alert when an expected seasonal occurrence of an event does not happen

if an event is seasonal, but does not occur at the expected seasonal time, do some action (generate event, open ticket, etc.)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Time interval between 1st & last Event in Related Event Group

On NOI-onprem, there is no way to specify or update or add the time interval between 1st and the last event within a Related Event Group through the UI. Because in real world, the events within a Related Event Group may or may not always appear in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration