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Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Password Reset option in DWC (like older versions)

Hello IBM Team, Since 9.5 DWC don't have the option to update the password (reset/change) . This is creating big problem . Can we have any utility or option in console from where users can update their password themselves. and Admin can track the ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Copy job logs

On a job creation (e.g. executable type), under environment tab we have , Standard input, Standard output, Standard error. This capabilities allows to provide a path to send the joblog. Allthough for job types like "SAP JOB ON DYNAMIC WORKSTATIONS...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under 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 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Placeholder support for ComputerSystems not fully discovered

Option to set the isPlaceholder attribute to True for ComputerSystems that have not been fully discovered to provide a easy way to decide whether the discovered data can be considered complete or not
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under 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the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis).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 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Not under consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Use Local Resources Globally

A resource defined on a Dynamic Agent can not be used as a dependency on a job on another Dynamic Agent in the same Job Stream.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration