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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Need to specify acceptable cipher suites in ssl handshake for Message Bus Probe

We would like to use the Message bus probe to accept alert info from an externally hosted service. Our corporate network team specifies 6 ssl cipher suites as acceptable for externally accessible urls. We would like to be able to specify the list ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Netcool ObjectServer REST HTTP enhancement to support OAUTH with Kerberos

This request is to update/enhance the authentication methods used by the ObjectServer HTTP/HTTPS REST API from basic http auth to using industry standard OAUTH this would allow for the usage of Kerberos keys reducing the need for passing passwords...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

group of calls "Without log message"

They want the possibility to group the calls "Without log message" in Analytics.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Traces are not shown for a "hmsbatchscheduler" service when selected larger duration

add the historic data indicator to the dashboards to avoid the confusion.
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Create SFTP-FTP for Webi Report Advanced Parameters

Customer ask to create SFTP-FTP plug-in for Webi Report Advanced ParametersIs needed for FTA : FTA041LP_1 (PRD) and FTA040LT_1 (TEST) are all in 9.5 versionHe needs to send via SFTP report created on BO Marco Borgianni was involved on this topic.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC searching job stream by job returns results for job stream with start condition monitor jobs

Currently, DWC searching job stream by job does not return results for job stream with start condition monitor jobs.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

APM agent for MQ Appliance should monitor Hardware too

We are using massively MQ Appliance but the last version of agent is not complete because it doesn't show information about MQ Appliance Hardware
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 3 Not under consideration

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 2 Planned for future release