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Enable SSL configuration for Oracle database connections

We had planned to deploy IWS 9.5FP2 (MDM and DWC) into Amazon cloud however our environment is mandated to use SSL connectivity to RDS instances. Currently only DB2 supports SSL which is not an option for us as Oracle RDS must be used in our AWS e...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

CustomAppServer to support script-based discovery mode

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL) have worked with Aricent (an IBM development partner) over the last 12 months to create the ability to discover devices behind firewalls by utilising our BigFix infrastructure - this removes the need to imp...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Event on Redis cluster integrity

We would like to monitor our Redis clusters' integrity. We run multiple clusters with multiple shards. Each shard should have at least one replica. Example output from `redis cluster nodes` with three shards each with a replica:# redis cluster nod...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Instana needs to create a sensor agent to observe Spectrum Scale on Linux on Z

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and is investing heavily in a hybrid cloud platform inclusive of Instana. We want to make use of this footprint and Instana observability capabilities across our hybrid cloud, withou...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Netcool/Impact

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Netcool/ Impact without having to acquire additional hardware
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Functionality already exists

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for TADDM without having to acquire additional hardware
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Omnibus without having to acquire additional hardware
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Release Notes / Changelog for API

I never find API related release notes/change logs anywhere. Please publish them with every new release, so that we can understand what has changed and how when updating our services.
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release