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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Kafka UI for DG

Kafka UI offers several advantages that can significantly enhance the management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of your Kafka environment. Advantages : Real-time Monitoring: Kafka UI provides real-time metrics and status of Kafka brokers, topics...
5 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

MainView Support for Instana on Z

My client is using MainView for resource monitoring in their IBM Z systems, instead of Omegamon. Lack of integration between MainView and Instana on Z is blocker of deploy for Instana on Z at Halkbank.
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Ship zAPM Connect Distributed Gateway binaries for customers to build images on top of customer-supplied base OS image

Usage of third-party pre-built images can have security or compliance issues in some enterprise customers. Company build pipelines can be mandatory, particularly where security guardrails built into CI/CD processes ensure vulnerability and end-of-...
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Increase container address space connections to a maximum of 1000 say

I believe the current maximum of 400 connections is to small. In some LPARs we have over 800 CICS regions. I know you can start a second zAPM container in the LPAR but it would be nice to have a start-up parameter to state the maximum with a defau...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Tracking Outbound of the Z

Currently zAPM supports tracking inbound and outbound between Sysplexes over MQ, but it does not currently support calls/transactions going outbound of the Z to another distributed application monitored by AppDynamics. When will outbound (E2E trac...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

zAPM to support iSeries

Include support for iSeries systems, in addition to zSeries
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

Digital chemical composition analyzer reporter device working with the application software

Digital chemical composition analyzer reporting device for every artificial organic product manufacturing Applied when using Water as raw material air supplied in bubble form and applying particular molecular level energy signal enhancing device f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

For the zAPM Openshift-hosted components, add support for externally-vaulted secrets data such as via Hashicorp Vault for environments where local secrets use is not permitted.

This would be useful for compliance/controls requirements where local Openshift secrets are not permitted. Managed secrets such as externally-vaulted secrets data with access controls are one example of a compliant solution. Benefit is to allow ac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

zAPM tracking data needs to be honored in CPSM routed environments.

I would like for the transaction tracking data to be honored if the transaction is routed dynamically from the TOR without executing. - PMR ID TS003273072
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 2 Not under consideration

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