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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Auto Recover from Hung threads and connections

Terminate any hung threads in application server(WebSphere) and close the hung DB connections without the need to restart the application process.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Impossible to install iSeries Agent on iASP storage

Installation on iSeries does not work if the user library has been bound to an iASP storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_storage_pool).The installation fails in the step that configures the iOS part.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Mutiple selection of extractions/definition/rules/policies in order to deactivate/delete them should be possible

Deleting multiple extraction/definitions/rules/policies requires enormous amount of clicks.We should have at least a way to select multiple extraction/definition/rules/policies to disable in the first place and after that to delete. Bare in mind t...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Option to disable CTRL-F (freeze) in Event Viewer

In in Event Viewer there is a shortcut for freezing the event list. The shortcut (CTRL-F) is normally used for finding stuff in the browser. This causes the user to freeze the event list by mistake, which causes them to miss alarms.We want the opt...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Device Discovery report

Provide a function to get Device Discovery report that would tell if the devices are accessible from ITNCM, and good to communicate from ITNCM
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Cloud Automation Manager: Pre-destroy plan output and confirmation so the user can see what will be deleted before it happens

CMSIBM-264 Pre-destroy plan output and confirmationAs an iCAM user, I would like to see a list of resources that will be destroyed when asked to confirm whether or not I want to destroy an instance. Acceptance Criteria:- iCAM UI displays pre-destr...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Scrolling API support for Message Bus probe

The only method available in MCP R4.0 to handle an alarm query which returns results greater than 10,000 records is to utilise the scrolling capability.The current version (10) of the Message Bus supports pagination - however there is a restrictio...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under consideration

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration