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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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MemberInProblemState only, if problem still exists

See PMR 19120,033,724 Today TSAMP sometimes shows Resource Groups with state "MemberInProblemState" even if all Members are online.This is caused by a resource, that was in a stuckOnline state after issues with reset, however this is hidden from t...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add a run cycle for an event rule

Having the equivalent of a run cycle in the job stream but for the event rules, which would allow an event to be available for instance from Monday through Friday
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

SA MP / LVM integration

looking for a functionality that would prevent you from the ability to mount the shared file system manually. the shared file systems are shared with 2 DB2 cluster nodes.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

preventing IBM.RecoveryRM issuing uncontrolled ctsnap

in case of IBM.RecoveryRM failures the deamon issues the ctsnap command. This will fill up the /tmp dir uncontrolled.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Event Rules Email Variables

Relating to event rules emails...We need variables to insert the JCL/Command of the job...and...one to insert the job log.
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration

Improved monitoring of TNPM

Improved monitoring of TNPM data processing. Monitoring via ITM of all data processing should be available (including summaries and BHs), partition maintenance etc.
over 10 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 3 Not under consideration

Loader (And Gateway) elasticity to deal with increased in data volume

TNPM. Currently Loaders (and Gateways) can deal with data backlog though backup instances that have been pre-configured. This request is to have Loader (And Gateway) elasticity to automatically and dynamically deal with unexpected increases or bac...
over 10 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 3 Not under consideration

Resource state at node start time

The original state of a resource (when a node first comes online or a domain comes online) is treated differently to a monitor command returning 0 (unknown) or a monitor timing out.With this running resources are stopped, whenthere is a dependency...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

ITNCM compliance- a way to tell which extractions are called by which definitions

We want to be able to see which Extractions are called by the Policies, Rules and Definitions - so that we know which ones to copy to the production system. It looks like the only way to do this is to open each individual Definition to see if it c...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration