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Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls. See case TS013086777. Thanks
10 months ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TNEW threshold applies to individual CICS transaction.

We are trying to capture docs for a long running task that can run anytime in a CICS region but TNEW function does not work because of the limitation of the threshold apply to the entired CICS started task.
about 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improving sampling of already active JITCM

Functionality right now is incomplete
about 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

support for MQ Queue Sharing goup name to APA

without this support all MQ reports in APA are empty
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add an option to allow APA to identify areas in foreign address spaces

In our shop, IMS and CICS run as JOBs, as opposed to Started tasks, and when capturing APAs for IMS Dependent Regions, areas that are in the IMS CTL or DLISAS cannot be identified by APA, showing as "Unresolved Addresses". Add a customizable optio...
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

cazcnfg0: not all config statements accept symbols

in de cazcnfg0 parameter files there are statements where you can use system symbols which is very handy to make this parameter file system independant. But some other statements do not accept system symbols which makes it very confusing. The idea...
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Extending Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)

Is there any plan in the roadmap to extend Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)?
over 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Java Messuring on Application Base for Cics

We have a Cics Liberty (standalone mode) with multiple applications. If we want to turn on APA in Production this will measure a lot.... We would need a possibility to spezify the application or application jar file to be measured. Liberty is call...
almost 6 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve DWARF support in APA

When compiling the reports, keep the DWARF portion of the program object with them, to allow viewing the source listing even after a program has been recompiled and its PO overwritten.
over 6 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Capture line counts for non-IPDS printers

Line counts are not being reported in QAUDJRN system journal.
almost 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration