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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM utility - icosutility (ResourceUtility) to allow encrypted password as argument when running via CLI interface

Why Icosutil allows creation of items like realms, RADs, NCS etc, which would otherwise need to be created via the GUI and typically is a time taking task. Who Operator and Administrators of the application will be able to install and configure th...
8 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

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
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Ability to see the full device group path in DI Alerts Detail widget for 'Device Group Name'

Customer is comparing the NMS UI v/s DI in this case. In NMS using the 'Alerts' attachment, when showing alert details grouped by Device Group, the device group name is shown with a full tree path, for example: All Device Groups/IP/Class A All Dev...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Security Vulnerability Management

Hello, It is very important to have a unified security insights & compliance dashboard and vulnerability management capabilities consolidated within the Instana APM / Observability solution. Besides application performance monitoring and proac...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Security and Compliance 0 Planned for future release

Ability to rollback in case that peer-add or HSA-add fails, to mantain cluster integrity

Request is ability to remove all the data added in the peer-add or hsa-add process in case of failure.
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs. We are required to automate cluster build setup and today that is not fully possible as al...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

TEPS connection to DB2 database over TLS

System: TEPSActor: User need new featureTo allow TEPS configuration to connect to a TLS enabled DB2 databaseDescription:Currently, TEPS only allows connection to non-TLS database. However, when the DB2 database is configured with TLS, it only allo...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release