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Start/stop instana agent looking for environment variable not set and maxdepth flag inside find which doesn't exist on AIX clients

Everytime an instana agent when stopped or started throws up this error on two environment variables not being set. JAVA_MAX_MEM' and 'JAVA_OPTS'. Assuming these needs to be defined in the setenv file. These variables needs to be set and exported ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Actualfree and free memory usage - AIX server monitoring

Its has been noticed that the memory usage under the infrastructure monitoring is reporting incorrect readings. After working with the support, found that instana use Sigar library to collect the memory metrics, which offers two values free and ac...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Tracing support for apache/IBM HTTPServer on windows platform

We have customer with core production using IBM HTTP Server on Windows 2016. Regarding IBM Instana documentation only Linux is supported for tracing: Supported Versions - Tracing Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x, on Linux x86_64. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.30...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2

Websites/More metrics in Page Load trace

Based on many comments received from customers we will value you consider adding the following key metrics in the page load trace of websites:OnLoadTimeDOM TimeFirst PaintFirst byte timeRequestResponse Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Please adapt ITNCM TCR reports to handle larger ITNCM environments (greater than 1000 realms).

Please adapt ITNCM TCR reports to handle larger ITNCM environments (greater than 1000 realms). Customer experienced the following error when trying to run a report with the top realm selected (resulting in > 1000 realms): *******Error code: UDA...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Enable SSL configuration for Oracle database connections

We had planned to deploy IWS 9.5FP2 (MDM and DWC) into Amazon cloud however our environment is mandated to use SSL connectivity to RDS instances. Currently only DB2 supports SSL which is not an option for us as Oracle RDS must be used in our AWS e...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Allow failover impact server in RBA configuration

When configuring RBA in a hybrid environment, with the Impact cluster on premise, there is only one option to configure the impact connection. There is no place to specify a backup server. if the primary impact server stopped, one would have to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

TPC Sensor Enchancement

Currently TPC sensors on TADDM 7.3 FP4 after successful Tivoli Productivity Center / Spectrum Control discovery, does not provide following direct links between objects: StorageSubsystem->Pools->Volumes->Computer System and vice versa. It...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration