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Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Run Datagather for FTA/DA/MDM from TDWC and sftp to TDWC tmp directory

An enhancement that allows an admin to run a datagatherer from the TDWC for any FTA/DA/MDM and have the file placed on the TDWC server would reduce time to get datagatherer to IBM support. Most large Environments seperate duties and IWS admins do ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Engine

There is no option to disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Workload Scheduler. For the Distributed masters there is a global option to disable what-if, but a similar option is not available in Z workload scheduler. Please provide with an option i...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

To be able to control how broker jobs execute, alphabetically vs based on start time.

Currently dynamic broker jobs execute in alphabetical order and if jobs back up for any reason, then jobs at higher alphabet order execute first and lower alphabet jobs wait even though start time was in past. This causes SLA's to be missed and no...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration