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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 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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Some contents are not in the high contrast mode and/or not well perceptible.

- It should be guaranteed that the contrasts of all contents can be adapted with the Windows contrast adaptation. During the contrast adaptation all information would keep on should be readable for visually handicapped users. - The background of...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

The click faces of the buttons are too small in the WebGUI

- Graphic buttons should be designed with sufficient size (min. 20px * 20px). - At small icons and buttons should the click face of the element through "Padding - Information" being extended.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 6 Planned for future release

Add ability to have common database credentials for jobs

Currently when database jobs are implemented, the DB login credentials have to be entered for each and every job. In the event of a password change in the database, this can require substantial manual effort and coordination to address. Provide an...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Target Configuration Guide needs least privilege for Azure SQL

As a user I would like the least privileges required to configure an Azure SPN for managing Azure SQL Databases with Turbonomic, so that I can can avoid having to use built in roles and providing too many permissions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Functionality already exists

To be able to see POST parameters in Instana

The URI of the service called from the screen in the package used by the customer is /cc/claimcenter.do. Currently we cannot check that "which function to call is written in the parameters in the POST".So it will be great to see POST parameters in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

MySQL storage used

Would like to get alerts for mysql storage capacity limit. Similar to built in event for cosmosdb "Azure CosmosDb storage capacity is getting closer to max capacity limit"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Able to associate tags on scheduling objects

Able to add tags such as job owner, severity, queue name. Those tags would be usefull to filter out, send notifications, create incidents etc.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

RESTART and CLEANUP on distributed d-centric agent

Facilitate adoption for d-centric agents, By allowing restart and cleanup. For usample we can use datastore to capture the output.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release