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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...

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

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

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

Auto-discover MQ configurations from mainframe system so that mainframe users can setup MQ tracing easier

Currently the mainframe MQ queue tracing by Z APM Connect is configured through editing the AGMSYSIN parameter data set manually, but many Z APM Connect administrators are mainframe system programmers, they are not familiar how the MQ configuratio...
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Allow MQ Put intercept via CICS transaction ID filter as opposed to MQ Queue name

For CICS => MQ => CICS tracking, MQ Queue name has to be specified in the AGMSYSIN for the MQ Put to be intercepted and instrumented. Please allow, as an alternative, for a parameter to specify the CICS transaction ID instead of the MQ Queue...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Support DTP tracing/tracking without AGMSYSIN transaction ID filters

Please provide the ability for CICS DTP transaction tracking without having to configure include filters in AGMSYSIN, so that it will only be triggered when a tracking token/singularity header/parent span is present.
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

HA setup for zAPM in Kubernetes/OSE environment

The current zAPM Implementation is not designed for HA (Active-Passive) setup. The current setup when installed will immediately start querying the configured AppDynamics controllers and is not suitable for passive setup. A HA setup will help with...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Allow for rebalance of CICS regions connected to Couriers after restart.

Once a CICS region is connected to a particular courier in the base component, it will continue to connect to the same courier across restarts of the base component. Please allow for the (optional?) redistribution of the connections, balanced acro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration