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Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Validate Symphony file prior distribution

We have recently experienced several issues during the IWS new plan load. Most likely related to Job Streams into ADD status. In order to prevent such impacts for many clients we do support (+40 Global Clients) we'd like to suggest a new process w...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Getting Monitoring Issues via Instana API

The customer can get event types such as incident, issue, change using Instana API, but they cannot get monitoring issues which are very important for them. Due to these monitoring issues, the monitoring done by Instana on technologies in producti...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Request for sensor for discovering MQ-applications (on IBM MQ-appliances)

We use the MQ-sensor for discovering MQ on midrange platform (AIX, Linux, Windows) in our organization.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Submit button visible to IT Planning Expenses tab mainscreen

Submit button in IT Planning Expenses tab should be visible in mainscreen for users. Now it is hidden under three dot button where it is hard to find (screenshot).
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

Provide improved Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches

Improve the Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches, so Switch information is buried below the physical frames. Support case TS001215656 has the entire history of the issue.
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Future consideration

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration