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    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...
    2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

    Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

    We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
    7 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

    Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
    8 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Needs more information

    Trace IMS Application which TN3270 kicked

    Would you add tracing function for IMS Application which TN3270 kicked?Our customers're interested in Instana, but they hesitate to use it because most their application is kicked from TN3270.We think trace id cannot be added for TN3270 transactio...
    26 days ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Submitted

    This request is for a CICS PLT Shutdown program for the IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect product

    We recently encountered an 0C4 abend at offset X'07C6' in program DFHDSTCB during CICS shutdown. We opened problem case TS020375660. It was determined that zAPM was causing the abend. IBM stated that this will happen sometimes and that we need to ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

    No error code for IMS transaction is showed

    Please add error code information of IMS transaction which includes IMS-MQ Bridge on Instana panel. Instana can show error code of IMS transaction if it is kicked via z/OS Connect, but it is not supported for IMS-MQ Bridge application. Please see ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Submitted

    IMS transaction's elaps time cannot be showed

    Please correct to show the correct elaps time when IMS-MQ Bridge is used. Instana cannot show the correct elaps time for IMS transaction when IMS-MQ Bridge is used, not z/OS Connect. Instana deals IMS transaction as calling GET, not remote procedu...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Submitted

    TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

    Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
    about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Update ZOVFS mkusr command with longer/complexer user-id/password and default directory

    With the current ZOVFS mkusr command we can add users with an 8 character alphanumeric user-id and password. A longer user-id (e.g. up to 25 characters) which can also contain special characters gives more flexibility for adding users, e.g. using ...
    4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    CTG .NET Client Support

    We need Instana on Z/OS to support CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway) .NET clients. This will help us better monitor and trace transactions. Please prioritize and implement this feature in Instana. It's crucial for our operations and will enhance our ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 3 Planned for future release

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