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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 Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide level WARN for Docker version of Instana agent

In https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=requirements-installing-host-agent-docker#installation INSTANA_LOG_LEVEL does not provide the level WARN. I guess this is an issue and should be added. Esp. for consistency.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck

Add ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Oracle E-Business Plugin for Workload Scheduler - Job isn't terminated in Oracle upon termination in IWS.

After submission, when the job is running and is reported in EXEC status in IBM Workload Scheduler, you can stop it if necessary, by using the kill command. The kill command stops the job in IBM Workload Scheduler, but not in the Oracle E-Business...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow automatic WPA-enablement (based on some default policy settings) for newly discovered clusters/vms

As a sequel to https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-321, it would provide great benefit to customers to have automatic (default) WPA settings for newly discovered clusters/VMs.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

NOI integration with CyberArk

Currently my client's authentication system is done by cyberark, it does not allow users with local authentication
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration