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Ability to trigger an event rule using or. Job A abends OR Job B abends, trigger rule.

Currently we have to create 2 separate event rules to do this. If we are hoping for the exact same action based on 2 separate jobs' events, why not allow us to choose Job A OR Job B in the event?
8 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

IWS 9.5 Being able to work with the long term plan in DWC when using a Z engine.

IWS 9.5 Being able to work with the long term and trial plan in the DWC when using a Z engine. This is tied to case number TS003457143.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

In a Windows HA (High Available) environment, provide a mechanism to define FINAL Jobs and Job Streams on a virtual workstation that can be resolved to the active MDM

With the advent of Automatic Failover feature introduced in 9.5 FP02, FINAL can be defined on an Extended Agent and resolved to the active MDM. This results in turn key solution where no admin intervention is required. Unfortunately, this is made ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS auditing for Login events (DWC, conman, composer) and changes to configuration and security files

See attached
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Events add - ability to add the joblog from a batch job Event Rule in the Event Email that is sent out to individuals

This is useful because customers can see just in their email what the issue in the joblog was.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration