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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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ITM Agent shows wrong OS version in TEP on Windows 2022 platform

ITM monitoring agent V6.3 with SP6 seems to work in recently published Windows 2022 Server OS. However Attribute "Windows Operation System Type" shows wrong OS version in TEP like Windows_2019 for Windows 2022. I remember there was a same problem ...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Password expiration process for Netcool Omnibus

The Netcool Omnibus does not have password expiration policy or feature for FID that resides in Object server. At present, password is changed by ISA team member who belongs to “Administrator” or “System” group “. The ISA team member shares the sc...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba: Probe should support more than 2 EMS to connect to 1 of available EMS on User provided priority order

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba: This Probe is currently supporting 2 EMS, where Probe will only connect to a Primary in general and to Secondary failover EMS if Primary is unavailable. However we have below requirement: If PrimaryEMS down, Probe should ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ITCAM MS SQL Server Agent should self-recover the Collector on SQL Server recycle

The background and the issue to solve: Currently MS SQL agent version V6.3.1.20 fails to return data to TEPS after the SQL Server Instance has stopped and then been started again. This occurs if the SQL Server instance has stopped for more than th...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" event and able to search node name with exact match

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" subscribed event and able to search node name with exact match.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

GIS capability using ASM topology over ASM GUI under DASH

GIS based ASM network views instead of standard stencil or white board
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists