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Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
22 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

The new Datalink function in Apptio is missing Functionality that DL Classic had

We are currently migrating all of our automated datalinks from Datalink (Classic) to the newer Datalink feature. In doing so, we found a feature restriction that we had in the legacy datalink that the newer one does not have.  Background: Se...
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

CT Report Filters should have 'Select All' Option

As a reporting user, I want the ability to choose all values from my filter values except one or two. This becomes very difficult to do when my filter has hundreds of values. For example, if I want to filter by a Customer field that has hundreds ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Ability to pull a list of all datalink connectors and the URL details

I would like to be able to export a list of all our datalink connectors and some data about them, like what the Source URL is
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Display [Description] field's text on mouse rollover of Editable Table's fields

As a TBMA, I would like to inform end users interacting with Editable Tables directly or via a report component of a field's description and other advice via mouse rollover pop-up text boxes to show that field's [Description] value. Such advice co...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
29 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted