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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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would like to have button to mark job to keep joblog longer

we would like to have a button available to mark a job to be kept for longer retention . At year end when we run month-end, quarter-end and Year-end jobs we like to be available to mark these jobs as keeping for extended days. Rather than the defa...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Alignment to industry standards RFC1123 for host lenght name

A change has been applied to the IT industry standard for host name lengthThe syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952.Host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a let...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Load Balancer Configuration For TADDM

As per the documentation, there are 2 ways to configure the load balancer for TADDM. One way is to run discovery job with load balancing across Discovery Servers taking IP's from different files and create new scope. The limitation with the curren...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include concurrent program output in IWS job log

Output from Oracle E-Business concurrent programs, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the program output in the IWS job log can make it easier for Operations teams to...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Support selection of print style and layout

The Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently support the selection of a layout template or a print style.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Ability to manage Request Sets

Oracle E-Business requests can be combined into request sets, where Oracle Concurrent Manager executes the individual requests in the set according to the relationships defined in the set. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in currently only supports ...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Optionally allow Warning status to be accepted as success

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may complete in Oracle Concurrent Manager with a Warning status. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provide a...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Optionally consider status of child requests

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may submit one or more child requests to Oracle Concurrent Manager. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provid...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Wait for child requests

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may submit one or more child requests to Oracle Concurrent Manager. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provid...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration