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Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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Enable Application Performance Analyzer in VS Code

Provide VS Code extension for Application Performance Analyzer
21 days ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Support for Software A.G.'s EntireX product

Extend your COBOL and Natural applications to the digital economy with APIs webMethods EntireX provides a cost-effective and efficient path for IT modernization and API enablement—whether you need to integrate mainframe assets into process applica...
about 3 years 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 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Count number of calls of csects/subroutine/entry point - No 2

It's important to know how often a csect / subroutine / entry point is called so that you can differenciate if you spend a long time in a single csect / subroutine / entry point or visited several times. We want to know the number of calls of a sp...
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

New Function/Product to support APA automation

For replacements for Application Performance measurement Tools like APA, customers need urgently an automation tool. This tool should be able to* start off measurements automatically and not only for predefined CPU or elapsed time but also for * n...
almost 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls. See case TS013086777. Thanks
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Improving sampling of already active JITCM

Functionality right now is incomplete
almost 2 years 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
almost 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Show REXX resource consumption

Similar to the languages already supported by Application Performance Analyzer - COBOL, Assembler, PL/I, C/C++, JAVA on z, and Natural - also support the REXX language
over 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration