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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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CTG .NET Client Support

We need Instana on Z/OS to support CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway) .NET clients. This will help us better monitor and trace transactions. Please prioritize and implement this feature in Instana. It's crucial for our operations and will enhance our ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Planned for future release

WAS Liberty for z/OS tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction which connects between WAS Liberty on z/OS and Db2 for z/OS via JDBC Type 2.Competitor is Dynatrace which supports WAS Liberty on z/OS but out customer wants to use IBM Instana if this support will be ad...

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
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future 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...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Multiple MQ monitoring subsystems in an lpar

Currently if any maintenance hits the 3 lmods concerned with the subsystem interface AGMQSTBC/AGMQSTBX/AGMQSSIN we have to either stop all ZAPM activity across that entire image, AGMQ TERM for any MQ regions where monitoring is active, stop CICS r...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Courier Scaling

Currently the out of the box implementation enables 3 couriers in the zAPM container, although up to 50 couriers can be used per container. IBM do not offer any information on what a courier can handle in terms of ASID (Address Space Identifier) c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

CICS Liberty Profile support on zAPM Connect

zAPM is commonly deployed in our environment for end-to-end transaction tracking from frontend to mainframe application including CICS & MQ related. However currently there is no support for JAVA application in CICS Liberty Profile which limit...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 2 Future consideration

MQ Trigger support

An important customer in Italy is showing interest in our end-to-end Instana solution (z + dist.). They use IMS as a transaction monitor and applications arrive on the z platform via WASz or via MQ. zAPM Connect currently support only MQ Bridge fo...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Outbound support via z/OS Connect EE

Please support zAPM tracking of outbound traffic(API requestor), ie, CICS to CICS via https / z/OS Connect EE (similar to CICS=>MQ=>CICS tracking which has recently been released). This needs to be configurable as not all the APIs providers ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Show Handled Abends in CICS as Errors on AppD dashboards

When abends are handled using Exec CICS Handle Abend, the consuming front end application may show errors on their AppD dashboard, but the CICS regions may not show up as experiencing issues. We consider handling of abends (where possible) to be g...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists