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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?
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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Add support discovery for RHEL > 8

Add discovery support for RHEL > 8, at the moment max version supported is RHEL 8 x86_64, it's needed that you support version > 8. If needed refer to caseTS008987318 Thanks
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

French support and documentation

We don’t have documentation or a French UI for the product. That could be a big blocker for HydroQuebec and GovQuebec
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered

change the value of Nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" to larger than 128

the value of nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" is fixed with 128, which will cause the gateway pod failed to start when the length of baseDomain is larger than 128 with following error. # kubectl logs gateway-67965f476b-l8f45 -n ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Option to disable the fragmentation of tables present under tempdb database

Related to PMR case number TS008818511 The problem is locking on the “tempdb” due to checking the fragmentation of a table or view Per customer requirement, the data collection of only fragmentation should be skipped for tempdb database.
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add Active Directory referral support to TEMS SDS client

Enables customers to benefit from the TEMS SDS security client for validating both the TEMS & TEPS login credentials where Active Directory is configured to use the LDAP referral feature. Currently the LDAP referral feature is not supported i...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

RBAC UI - Ability to 'Select All' when selecting Product Areas, k8s etc

As an Instana administrator, I would like the ability to 'Select All' before or after filtering when setting up Groups so that I easily set up Groups with access to a large number of product areas. (Currently it is possible to filter but then you ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered