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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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Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Arithmetic operations on dashboard widgets

The customer wants to be able to create a widget using simple operations (x % / + -...).One of the use cases is creating the widget displaying the count per minute so they have to divide the average by 60 which is not yet possible.
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Copy job logs

On a job creation (e.g. executable type), under environment tab we have , Standard input, Standard output, Standard error. This capabilities allows to provide a path to send the joblog. Allthough for job types like "SAP JOB ON DYNAMIC WORKSTATIONS...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

composer jobstream output no longer readable starting from 9.4

Jobstream output from composer uses 2 line returns instead of 1 between jobstreams and jobs, This has 2 negative impacts: 1. It is much less readable. To make output readable just change font or screensize or use DWC graphical views. 2. It takes u...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Need HA capability in JDBC Gateway

Need HA capability in JDBC Gateway.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Juniper's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the juniper vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below:ex4500-40fm320t4000m10iex4200-24tm7iex3200-24tex4200-48tex...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

Core Huawei's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the huawei vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below:NetEngine 8000 M8NE9000S9303 TerabitNetEngine 8000 M14
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

Cisco's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the Cisco vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below: WS-C4948ME-3800X-24FS-M7206VXRASR10062811Nexus9000 C93180YC...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Functionality already exists