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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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Add information in the DISCEVNT tables to improve reporting capabilities of discovery events

Reporting of discovery events, especially when using non-standard SensorNames (for example "SessionSenssor for non-anchors") os un-necessarily complicated because information about sensorName, and target IP, and targetIP_AddressScope are not repre...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Request for adding Outgoing connection for PagerDuty with AI Manager in Data And Tool integration

In order to receive the alerts to PagerDuty, we are looking for some outgoing connection to be added to AI Manager in Data And Tool Integration which will help SREs in our team to monitor all alerts coming from AI Manager of CP4WAIOps from PagerDu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

We should have the option of adding host dns alias in the resources managed by custom resource "manageservice"

Its useful because sometimes, you want to add the dns alias locally instead of adding a global alias or override an existing dns alias. This is supported by openshift but its restricted in this case because of custom resource. (Infrastructure auto...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Allow RACF surrogate authority to be used in the configureDb.sh script to define the DB2 database for a DWC running on z/OS

As discussed in case TS012239863, when defining a DB2 for z/OS database it is not necessary to run the SQL (whether it is run as batch job, as a BPXBATCH invocation of a script, or directly as a script under OMVS) under the userid that has SYSADM ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

use of generic caracters in SDOM ACL and ROLES definitions

To help selecting an defining objects. For now just @ is allowed,we need the use of a single caractere selection possibility, like for jobs or schedules selection
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

just retain the name of original schedule in the schedule userjobs

If the schedule is not in carryfroward, its diffciult to retrieve original schedule in the userjobs schedule
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration