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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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Enable functionality to ITNM Network Views to add annotations to maps

ability to add annotations to Network View maps
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Display of IDAA boxes in TADDM

Currently, TADDM doesn't discover the IDAA boxes in our environment.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Not under consideration

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation to collect CI attributes and dependency data.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Jython API executeCommandWithTimeout improvements

A) The executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error. We had to redirect stderr to stdout. B) The executeCommandWithTimeout (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file. (The command we are executing does not as far as I ...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Load Balancer Configuration For TADDM

As per the documentation, there are 2 ways to configure the load balancer for TADDM. One way is to run discovery job with load balancing across Discovery Servers taking IP's from different files and create new scope. The limitation with the curren...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Fetch Info-Model-Os-Configuration from one file

RAD script should be able to parse and fetch Info, Model, Os, Configuration from one input file for file based imports. Require support of FIND-BEGIN/FIND-END logic for this parse and fetch. RFE recommended by Steven Shuman.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Replacing Scheduling Objects through Workload Applications

If a scheduling object definition included in a Workload Application already exists in the target environment, even though a dialog during the import process provides an option to replace it, it is unable to replace it. This is because the existin...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Scheduling a Report from the DWC directly

TDWC Reports should have a button to schedule/automate the report into a job and stream (open new windows to add details of job name, stream name and schedule/rc)
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration