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IBM Z Observability 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
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 1 Not under consideration

J2C Protocol support on zAPM Connect

The WAS Socket communication links, based on the J2C protocol does not support header injection (tagging) to allow correlation of transactions and visualization of zOS components on the AppDynamics Controller GUI.Approximately 50% of our organizat...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Observability 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 3 years ago in IBM Z Observability 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 3 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Not under consideration

zAPM to support iSeries

Include support for iSeries systems, in addition to zSeries
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 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 5 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 2 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.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 1 Not under consideration

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud support for Z APM Distributed Gateway

Please add the official support for Z APM Distributed Gateway and OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy work on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.1) We'd like to know if it would be possible by Dec 92) Our customer requires that the verification test wo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Not under consideration

Auto-discover MQ configurations from mainframe system so that mainframe users can setup MQ tracing easier

Currently the mainframe MQ queue tracing by Z APM Connect is configured through editing the AGMSYSIN parameter data set manually, but many Z APM Connect administrators are mainframe system programmers, they are not familiar how the MQ configuratio...
9 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Not under consideration