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    Avoid overwriting the Db2 special registers

    When Instana performs transaction tracking for Db2 processing, the Db2 special register CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME was overwritten with Instana's TraceID. Many customers set their own values in Db2 special registers to aggregate data by transaction type. S...
    10 days ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Under review

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    Allow the user to customize attribute collection, keeping the current minimum set as "mandatory" and additional metrics as optional. In this way, the client will be responsible for granularizing the collection of metadata from the environment, as well as the balance between the desired level of detail versus the overhead caused.

    We recently conducted a PoC for this client, which uses a competitor's solution (Dynatrace) in a small portion of its environment. Unfortunately, we were disqualified for failing to meet the following requirements: The CICS transaction informati...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0

    MFA User Segment alerts

    Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
    about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Future consideration

    Allow using pre-existing Kafka cluster with the Telemetry Controller

    In sensitive / high-restrictions environments, it's not possible to deploy our own little Kafka cluster, let alone with the auto-creation of topics.It is necessary to point to the existing Kafka footprint in an env., and to use mTLS for authn/auth...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Future consideration

    Omegamon need to start to support the use of SMF

    Omegamon is dependent on NMI. This prevent other vendors to send important information to Omegamon. A simpel exempel is the sftp server from CO:Z. It can not use the NMI but can generate SMF 119 records. It is the same information as the FTP serve...
    about 1 month ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Native Z HMC to Observability Connect for IBM Z LinuxONE

    Request enhancement to enable direct collection of IBM Z / LinuxONE Z HMC metrics into IBM Observability Connect, with automatic transformation into OpenTelemetry (OTEL) format, allowing integration with Splunk Observability, Dynatrace, and other ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Future consideration

    A utility to analyze SMF & syslog volume, and then suggest sizes for components

    Since IBM has the zPET env., it should be reasonable to create workload to drive CICS, IMS, Db2, MQ, etc., and see at what point ZAPM Connect + CDP croaks.The sizing exercise should be data driven, i.e., based on SMF/log data from each customer en...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Under review

    Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

    Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
    6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

    zSecure Alert - Align Mail header for Alert 1617 with message C2P1617I

    This is to request an update in the way zSecure Alert generates the mail for the master key rotation.See attached screen print for reference. Where the message contains both key types RSA and ECC as expected.The mail body holds the same informatio...
    10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Planned for future release

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