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Add information on the Job status change event to distinguish between ABENDs of jobs that are automatically recovered and the ones that require a manual intervention.

To achieve Service cafe integration with IWA and automate the ticket creation process which we are currently doing manually. We have certain use cases that needs to differentiate the job abend scenarios and create the tickets accordingly.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to add Cell wise comment on the IT-Plannning Expenses page

Users have demanded an ability to add cell wise comments similar to Microsoft Excel. For e.g. If a expense has T&M billing then each cell will have a different forecast value and the user needs the ability to save comment on each cell. 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Check subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX

It could be useful to have the possibility to check the controller subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQXYJPX. Actually, if the subsystem is not active, the WAPL procedure ends immediately after INIT command and the job step terminates with...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Parameterization of the percentage in the message "EQQMC09W THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OCCURENCES IS occnum IT HAS EXCEEDED THE percent OF THE MAXOCCNUM VALUE"

I'm asking for the possibility to set a different threshold for trigger the message EQQMC09W THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OCCURENCES IS occnum IT HAS EXCEEDED THE percent OF THE MAXOCCNUM VALUE Now this message is issued for 80% and 90% thresholds but th...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Can SevOne Ingest JSON records as flow records?

We are using the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and have found a way to write the telemetry data out to a NFS mount point. It some out in a stream of multiple changing files. Below is a example of the output of the file. It looks to give us much m...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Future consideration

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Needs more information

Connect IWS CLI (conman/composer) DIRECTLY to Win/AD using LDAP

Instead of using the useropts_twsxxxx file to authenticate IWS users credentials , can we directly go to our Win/AD system via LDAP to authenticate this way. eg removed the useropts. file
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Request for Red HAT Jboss AMQ discovey sensor

We need a TADDM discovery sensor for Red Hat Jboss AMQ similar to Websphere MQ one.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration