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Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
7 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to restrict user groups to a single specific view

This will ensure particular set of users will only be able to view the data they own / are authorized to view. Right now, since this feature is unavailable, users are able to see other views also
18 days ago in Cloudability / Views 4 Under review

Gantt View or Roadmap View that is Drillable

We are utilizing Power BI to build Gantt charts based off of epic, feature, and story dates to meet end user needs. Today in Targetprocess, roadmap views limit you to one entity type and is not drillable. If roadmaps were drillable, this would hel...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Future consideration

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted