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Policy storage without server name

Please provide an option to allow for storage of $IMPACT_HOME/policy/*.ipl without the server name being forced into the policy name. This will allow for simplified storage of common policies shared amongst clusters or multiple clusters within ver...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards - Jump to analytics view in custom dashboard based on widgets metrics, aggregations, filter queries

We though it would be cool if it would be possible to jump from custom dashboard panel to analytics just as in application perspective summary.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 8.12.x

Hi team, Customer has been using Elasticsearch for a few years and asked support since version 8.1.x but now has 8.12.x and the latest we support is 8.11.x Please enable support for version 8.12.x, this is important to monitor production systems. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Link FTE Reduction on Labor Tab to Reductions on Labor Activity Tab for Individuals

If a person's time or FTE count reduces on the labor tab, from 1 to .5 fte as an example, customer wants the labor activity tab to "automatically" reduce the current forecast
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

User attributes in validation rule

Hello,   We would like to set some characteristics at user profile level (via custom fields) to indicate those users have extra permissions to change some specific fields of an object. I didn’t find a way to access the user profile from withi...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration