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Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Include filtered totals in any object totals

If you filter actions in a plan, the total number of actions does not change with the number. It'd be very helpful to see what the total is once filters are applied. Example: run a plan to rightsize a group of vms. your plan actions show "plan act...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Omegamon TEPS needs to be aware of FTO HUB failover automatically

Apparently every piece of the Omegamon suite is aware of when an FTO HA HUB fails over to the hot standby, except the TEPS. This is a dramatic impact to functionality since this means that manual configurations changes are needed to the TEPS EVERY...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

Submit folder

We want to be able to submit a folder, with all its jobs/streams/dependencies into the plan. Just like you can submit an existing stream or job into the plan.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Java Gateway for JDBC 2 requires to respond with nco_ping

IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Java Gateway for JDBC 2 currently does not listen on the port where omni.dat defines. This is not like other traditional gateway. so that the gateway is not nco_ping-able. Sometimes, this feature is required for a cold standby ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Agent Monitoring AMQP status

Currently MQ sensor only support channel status and MQTT channel status, AMQP type is not supported yet. So you will see it in channel table, but channel status is not in the same table with common channels. MQ's output of dis chstatus(*) and dis ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Instana WEB monitoring API key protection against malicious data ingestion

Currently WEB monitoring configurations on Instana are allowing anyone having access to the key used in the JavaScript configuration to ingest data. For security reasons it would be nice to limit the acceptance of data ingested by using a particul...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration