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Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
5 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Functionality already exists

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
9 months ago in Apptio 1 Future consideration

View updated Line Items option at grouped department level in ITP

We noticed that the option to “View Updated” lines in ITP is currently available only at the cost object level, and not at the grouped department level. It could be helpful if this functionality were also available at the overall plan level and ac...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Provide full list of images used for each version of CP4AIOps

I am submitting this request on behalf of Bank of America. Every time IBM development delivers a new version of NOI or Cloud Pak for AIOps, BofA is required to download the images into their internal Artifactory to run security scans on those imag...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Using Orchestration Queries (OQL) from Orchestration Command Line Interface (OCLI)

OQL is a powerful language to monitor scheduling objects both in the plan and model. It's usage with the Orchestration Monitor and REST API v2 allows customers to monitor and control scheduling objects today. Most customers control IWS using scrip...
14 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted