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Submit folder

We want to be able to submit a folder, with all its jobs/streams/dependencies into the plan. Just like you can submit an existing stream or job into the plan.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

WebGUI event viewer selected event export as CSV tool option

The event viewer allows copy+paste of events but these have no separator. We need a tool to export selected events in the event viewer to a CSV/XLS file for use with a spreadsheet. This allows users to discuss and share event details easier, for t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

NOI CNEA capability to group across object servers

Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Event Analytics - Hybrid Deployment Telco Netcool clients with network with a great number of devices use to have a 3 tier Netcool deployment and because the huge number of alarms creates more then 1 pair of obje...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 6 Future consideration

Total Bytes Received not to be reset

We need to capture the total bytes received by an MQ channel. BytesReceived parameter in MQ gives us just that. However , when ITCAM collects it ,it resets it per interval which is 5 minutes by default rendering the parameter unusable. Please eith...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 3 Functionality already exists

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to a fully encrypted Sybase database

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to fully encrypted Sybase databases.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration