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User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Delivered

Adding the capacity to install new plugins/drivers for NAPALM

Currently the NAPALM module only supports what is the default for few vendors (Cisco mainly). But there are more networking brands and models requiring RIA integration as well. Example: Fortinet. It is not supported out of the box, but there are p...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

loading the base-domain URL should forward the user to the tenant-unit.baseDomain URL for login

We learned from working on the Case "TS019337924 Different login experience", that the following behaviour is the status-quo for k3s selfhosted Instana (3.291.396-0): The URL https://basedomain.de (login fails in your env) is valid just after a fr...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Adding GPU capability in Turbonomic

Currenlty GPU resources are not recognized in Turbonomic and we are going big with GPU enabled VMs. Due to wihich GPU enabled clusters are managed manually for VM Motion. This ineeds to be prioritized. Lack of GPU resource understandng in Turbonom...

Problem to discover Serial Number, Manufacturer and vendor parameters for Tiesse devices

I'm trying to find the serial number, manifacture and vendor parameters of the Tiesse devices. I built the ad hoc agent but even if it does not give an error it does not extract the desired values.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Delivered

Tibco EMS Monitoring: Change number of queues / topic

When monitoring Tibco EMS the maximum number of queues or topics which can be monitored are limited to 200. This should be changed to any value the customer might want to choose knowing the possible impact that might have.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Display Values Directly on Treemap Visualization in Apptio BI

In the Treemap visualization in Apptio BI, the values are only visible when we hover over individual sections. This is inconvenient, especially when we need to capture or share the chart. It would be more effective if the values were displayed dir...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Mike Hofmann

The instana kafka sensor is monitoring kafka with zookeeper config only. ZK is deprecated in future releases of kafka and will be replaced by kRaft. We have need to monitor a kafka/KRaft setup. This AHA request is a follow-up of case opened for th...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

When SSO is enabled, feature to send invite email to add users should be disabled

Once SSO is enabled, in order to get access to application users need to be part of AD security group. But if any user (even outside the organization) is sent invite to join Instana, he/she can create his/her own password and can login to the appl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered