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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 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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Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Netact SNMP trap retransmission

Netact Corba interface ramp-down is planned for NetAct 22 FP2201, which is the first feature package in 2022 Jan. Requirement is to have a probe, capable of requesting SNMP trap retransmission. SNMP alarm upload: http://cudovm01.netact.nsn-rdnet.n...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Hide SQL commands or SQL returned when running a Database job type in 9.4 Web Console

When setting up and running a database job type in 9.4 Web Console, in the job log information it displays the SQL that was returned from running the database job. It would be helpful to be able to choose if you would like this information to be h...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

passing File name with job as paramater to the job script , Job should take name of the file which is getting satisfy using file base dependency

we have event base scheduling to pass file name, where name of the fill will be the file which is getting satisfy with file dependency but here problme is FTA is dependent on Master for event part. Instead of this if we can pass file name in norma...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DASH Pages access like WebPage of WebServer without Authentication or Authorisation

Team, The main purpose of DASHBoarding / Reporting with all fancy stuff like widgets and other aspects is to provide some one page output to Executive or Management Also to display in TV / Wall Screen like Kiosk run 24/7 We are sure that no actual...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To be able to delete the final WebGUI Filter in a group or user in WebGUI

At the moment it is not possible to remove the final filter from a user or group through the WebGUI. This is a limitation that some customers would like removed. Administrators would be able to remove all filters from a user or group through the W...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Liberty Core: Implement federated repositories

We implemented OIDC using Liberty Core on Netcool/Impact application for Google Authentication. But then the VMM based user failed to access, because it is not possible to use both locally defined user and also oauth google user at the same time. ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add Extended job name to the EQQE036I message

Currently the EQQ message does not contain the extended job name for distributed jobs in an E2E environment
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWA - set OS priority for a job

Provide a new job definition keyword to specify an OS level priority. When the job is started, IWA will "nice" the process to the specified level (low, med, high maybe). This would be different than the current IWA priority, which only affects the...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Filters in IWS output collector

Our IWS environment include both PROD and TEST jobs in the same controller but now a new "requirement" has arised to the the output collector that collect the distributed joblogs and transferred them to the mainframe. Today, when installing the IW...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration