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IBM Z Observability Connect

Pass LPAR names in Instana spans to make it possible to differentiate Application flows between UAT and PROD environment in case they use the same CICS region names and CICS transaction names

In environments where IBM Z Application Performance Management (Z APM Connect via Z Observability Connect) is used with Instana, customers often operate multiple environments such as UAT and PROD with identical CICS region names, CICS transaction ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Planned for future release

Add support for B3 (Zipkin) trace context propagation in ZAPM to enable interoperability with mixed observability environments.

We would like ZAPM to support B3 trace context propagation, in particular the multi-header format (x-b3-*), alongside existing W3C support. This is useful to ensure interoperability with modern observability ecosystems where multiple propagation s...
20 days ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Submitted

Support Podman/Docker deployment for Z Observability Connect OTEL Collector

Z Observability Connect's OTEL Collector (Telemetry Controller) is currently supported on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and RHEL. Fiserv's network topology includes segmented zones where deploying a full OCP cluster is not feasible, and they ...
11 days ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Submitted

Please support OpenTelemetry Java Agent when Z Observability Connect is used.

Please support OpenTelemetry Java Agent when Z Observability Connect is used.JMS by OpenTelemetry Java Agent cannot be traced depending on the version of MQ Resource Adapter.- In the case of 9.4.3.0, because the span of JMS and context can be tran...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Not under consideration

OTEL Span - Data masking capability

As the span data are transmitted through from zOS OTEL Emitter onto Observability Connect, we need to be able to mask any span data that we do not want to be transmitted out to the Observability Backend system.
2 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Planned for future release

Command driven reload of AGM components in zCEE

Most of the zAPM functions can be manipulated dynamically. We can AGMU STOP/START the CICS component, AGMQ TERM/INIT the MQ components & F container,AGMA IVP to trigger a comms attempt to the DG from container. There does not appear to be a wa...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Future consideration

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
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Not under consideration

Kafka fault tolerance , data loss and scalability improvement.

The zAPM product's Kafka configuration is currently not utilizing persistence storage and is running on a single pod. While this setup may be functional to some extent, it exposes the system to potential risks and limitations. I kindly request you...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Future consideration

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 ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Future consideration

Avoid overwriting the Db2 special registers

When Instana performs transaction tracking for Db2 processing, the Db2 special register CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME was overwritten with Instana's TraceID. Many customers set their own values in Db2 special registers to aggregate data by transaction type. S...
5 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Future consideration