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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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Ability to filter database groups by database server name

There is currently the ability to filter by database name, but not database server name. In our azure environment, we have plenty of databases with the exact same name, but are located on different database server names. Adding this filter helps u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 3 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

ObjectServer HADR feature required to use failover pair as DASH/WebGUI HA source

Along with OMNIbus Core 8.1.0.24, DASH 3.1.1.9 and OMNIbus WebGUI 8.1.0.21 an ObjectServer can be used as DASH HA database source.Unfortunately only a single ObjectServer instance can be configured as a source which will be again a single point of...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
11 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

TLS support in CA Spectrum (CORBA) probe

TLS 1.2/1.3 protocol to be used between CA Spectrum and the CORBA probe. We requires all data to be encrypted in-transit for the connection probe-to-datasource connection (Spectrum connection). This data encryption in-transit is required by bankin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
6 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

NCM Driver Support for Nokia 7250 IXR-e

Currently there is no driver available for Nokia 7250 IXR series https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/documents/ale-hybridpol-nokia-7250-ixr-e-interconnect-routers-datasheet-en.pdf . Would like to have a driver available for this ...
12 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

Cyberark Plugin to TWS

Would like the ability to call cyberark to pull password for users for injection into new job types for LWA
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Instant Client for Oracle 19 in ITNM

ITNM installs the client to connect to database for access the NCIM tables. For Oracle, having it installed and upgraded from 4.2.0.3 to 4.2.0.11 (with many steps in-between over the years), I see two clients at $NCHOME/precision/platform/linux2x8...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Add TADDM support to discover RHEL version 9.2 targets

The GA Release for RHEL 9.2 was May 2023. We are already doing the preparation to deploy it in our environment, and we need to qualify TADDM discovery on RHEL 9.2 targets.