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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 ...
21 days 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Under review

Allow using pre-existing Kafka cluster with the Telemetry Controller

In sensitive / high-restrictions environments, it's not possible to deploy our own little Kafka cluster, let alone with the auto-creation of topics.It is necessary to point to the existing Kafka footprint in an env., and to use mTLS for authn/auth...
3 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Future consideration

Native Z HMC to Observability Connect for IBM Z LinuxONE

Request enhancement to enable direct collection of IBM Z / LinuxONE Z HMC metrics into IBM Observability Connect, with automatic transformation into OpenTelemetry (OTEL) format, allowing integration with Splunk Observability, Dynatrace, and other ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect

A utility to analyze SMF & syslog volume, and then suggest sizes for components

Since IBM has the zPET env., it should be reasonable to create workload to drive CICS, IMS, Db2, MQ, etc., and see at what point ZAPM Connect + CDP croaks.The sizing exercise should be data driven, i.e., based on SMF/log data from each customer en...
3 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Under review

Trace IMS Application which TN3270 kicked

Would you add tracing function for IMS Application which TN3270 kicked?Our customers're interested in Instana, but they hesitate to use it because most their application is kicked from TN3270.We think trace id cannot be added for TN3270 transactio...
5 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Planned for future release

No error code for IMS transaction is showed

Please add error code information of IMS transaction which includes IMS-MQ Bridge on Instana panel. Instana can show error code of IMS transaction if it is kicked via z/OS Connect, but it is not supported for IMS-MQ Bridge application. Please see ...
5 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Is a defect

IMS transaction's elaps time cannot be showed

Please correct to show the correct elaps time when IMS-MQ Bridge is used. Instana cannot show the correct elaps time for IMS transaction when IMS-MQ Bridge is used, not z/OS Connect. Instana deals IMS transaction as calling GET, not remote procedu...
5 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect Is a defect

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

Allow the user to customize attribute collection, keeping the current minimum set as "mandatory" and additional metrics as optional. In this way, the client will be responsible for granularizing the collection of metadata from the environment, as well as the balance between the desired level of detail versus the overhead caused.

We recently conducted a PoC for this client, which uses a competitor's solution (Dynatrace) in a small portion of its environment. Unfortunately, we were disqualified for failing to meet the following requirements: The CICS transaction informati...
7 months ago in IBM Z Observability Connect

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