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Created on Oct 9, 2020

Support for Cobol on Linux via Podman

The point is to replace the host i.e. all Cobol programs should run on Linux in the future. The microfocus server is then used for this. The current trend is that this be packed in containers and run with podman or started for the run.

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    Rodoljub Radivojevic
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    Apr 18, 2023

    I am happy to announce that we support the Podman container engine. It's now in open beta.

    You can find details here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=beta-monitoring-podman

    I am looking forward to your feedback.

  • Admin
    Rodoljub Radivojevic
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    Sep 22, 2022

    We are going to support Podman container engine, the same way we support Docker.

    There are no plans to support Cobol.

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We want to have instana to support podman as it does for docker. Podman is the standard container service in Redhat, and redhat belongs to IBM. So why dont support it? Withoud podman support instana is blind to podman. Other APM-Tools allready sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered