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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...
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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Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

At Predefined Reports JS should be analyzed.

Regarding Queries at "Predifined Reports" corresponds only at Jobs. It would be good, when it will be possible to correspont to Job Streams
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support `docker run` arguments to enable customers/partners to use IEAM

IEAM (and open-horizon) should support a wider range ofdocker runarguments? I frequently encounter IBMers, partners, and customers who use Docker currently but they use arguments like the following that we don't currently support inhttps://github....
about 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 1 Future consideration

Standardize date and time display

Allow the user to configure the display of date and time values. Consistently apply formatting across the produce. A good default format would be ISO-8601. 2018-04-22 16:20.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0

REST GET nsm/work

Requesting new NSM GET URI for work. Originally requested in RFE 88570.nsm /work/{id}nsm /work/{id}/tasknsm /work/{id}/task/{task-id}nsm /work/created/after/{date}nsm /work/created/before/{date}nsm /work/requesttype/{requesttype}nsm /work/state/{s...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Need a way to visualize TWS objects in a text mode in DWC

Our user base depends on text visualization and the ability to view, modify, update TWS objects in a text format. This is not via Composer. DWC has no such functionality and we are trying to deploy DWC but adoption will be slow without some way to...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration