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Introducing automatic instrumentation for WebSphere Application Server

Hi Team, We are struggling with configuring website monitoring for a core banking system deployed using IBM WebSphere application server. And we are not getting support from the core banking vendor to add the ieum script provided by Instana and we...
2 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

pouvoir utiliser JSUNTIL et OPENS dans une meme regle de planification.

une application ETA a besoin de créer un schedule qui verifie ce qui suit: le schedule peut se declencher entre 22h et 03h du matin. Le schedule doit se déclencher seulement sur reception de fichier etzjo0aa.etzaaqq* Si le fichier n'est pas arrivé...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

VPC flow logs for Cloud

I have 2 customers interested in VPC flow logs for both Azure & GCP. For GSP is was called out as a requirement
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Under review

Support for 'Dell Powerflex' & "NetApp Solifire' storage as Target in Turbonomic

We are planning to migrate our VMs (Vcenter) from solidfire to powerflex storage (storage vmotion only). This is a potential multi year long project of migrating PBs of data from one storage to other. We would to like to present TBN/Turbonomic as ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Under review

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
9 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Need fully functional Tag-Based Views in Cloudability, using top-level account tags only (not resource tags)

When using a top-level tag view, the customers are unable to see Insights/Containers, Committment Portfilio, Committment Recs, or Committment Manager. Whne selecting any of the listed options, and error is thrown similar to this one for Containers...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Ability to export Activity data to DB2

In the IBM AIOps solution, activities (somewhat equivalent to a journal in Netcool) cannot be exported to DB2 or another relational database. Expected Behavior: There should be the ability to export Activity data to DB2 to enable querying, auditin...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review