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Default Dashboard for DB2 Monitoring

🎯 Goal : Enable database administrators and operations teams to quickly assess the health and performance of DB2 environments without additional setup or custom dashboards. 📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: Overview Total DB2 Hosts monitored Total ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Not under consideration

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Case Summary post indicates the current values of these fields, not the values as they were submitted

From: IBM Support (do not reply) <ibmsupportnoreply@us.ibm.com> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2025 11:47 AM To: Read, Sam <sam.read@landg.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Case closed - TS019792655 - Apptio - 0355650 Case closed - TS019792655 21 July ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request – Bulk User Management in Admin Console

Enhancement Request – Bulk User Management in Apptio Admin Console We are also requesting enhancements to improve the multi-user management capabilities within the Admin section: Bulk Search / Last Login Visibility: We also need an easier way to: ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Deployment of CA-signed certificate

As a customer, our internal compliance policies require a CA-signed certificate to establish a connection with vendor products for the purpose of role assignment automation. Only a self-signed certificate is currently available for Apptio products...
3 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Add this new idea creation link as one of the tile in IBM support main portal

I would think adding the new idea link to the IBM Support portal main page as one of the tiles would be super beneficial for all. I sometimes in the need to be able to submit such and would be great to be able to find this link on the page ,well o...
4 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
8 months ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Support InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent

We have a system where InfoSphere DataStage is main component. In this system, we take a long time and cost to collect metrics and evaluate it. Please support the InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent. Our InfoSphere DataStage is 11.7.0, ...
6 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration