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Instana Synthetic scripts to support SOAP/WSDL format

Instana Synthetic scripts should natively support SOAP/WSDL communication. There's a lot of legacy applications, which are still using SOAP/WSDL method and which should be monitored by Instana scripts.
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Reprocess and refetch K8 tags and labels

Issue : Customer has added new K8 label and tags however we are blocked as currently we don't support historical retrieval of Kubernetes labels for Container Cost Allocation . Reprocessing and refetching of K8 labels is possible only once at initi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Select specific alerts from the issue resolution API

Hello Our client ingests kafka alerts in CP4AIops and enriches them via Netcool Impact as they are created. At regular frequencies set by Netcool Impact services, the client needs to patch specific alerts via Netcool Impact using the CP4AIops issu...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Planned for future release

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

ADM disable load of actuals into closed months

The possibility to disable load of actuals into closed months can prevent loss of actuals that is currently happening by design in 2 different ways:    1. As Cost Object Ref Data is taken from last Period of CT that is open AND at th...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Ability to clear all filters on a report and List views and dashboards.

Ability to clear all filters on a report and List views and dashboards. No way to clear all filters, must reset each filter one at a time for example Run vs Grow report: https://usibm.tpondemand.com/restui/board.aspx?#page=customreport/55560569709...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters / Reports 1 Under review

Add support for configurable TLS protocol version in IRIA/IRNA integrations

We are currently integrating IRIA (IBM Rapid Infrastructure Automation) with legacy Cisco ASA devices that only support TLS v1.0. However, IRIA’s default Node.js HTTPS agent uses TLS v1.2, and there is currently no way to configure or downgrade th...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration