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Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters.

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters. Due to the above limitation the fi...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Jnext Enhancement - Bring objects from DB to Plan without Jnext

1) We want to isolate any faulty FTAs from the current plan without the need of scratching it or refreshing it. If we find some FTAs are having issues after the generation of production plan which causes impact to the master, we should have some c...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Request a read-only role in Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, without delete/create permissions

We would like to request the addition of a read-only role (without delete/create permission) in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, regardless of which user created them, but nothing else
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Provide sample gitops process for Instana synthetics

Instana Synthetics is nodejs code so teams/users should keep it in a github repo for version control, security, compliance, tracking issues for changes etc The gap is automating deploying that code into an Instana account. By providing a sample gi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Normalize Manufacturer and Model fields CDM

Normalize the Manufacturer and Model fields in the TADDM DB, so we can use the values to find enhanced information on the product.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists