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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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Ship zAPM Connect Distributed Gateway binaries for customers to build images on top of customer-supplied base OS image

Usage of third-party pre-built images can have security or compliance issues in some enterprise customers. Company build pipelines can be mandatory, particularly where security guardrails built into CI/CD processes ensure vulnerability and end-of-...

Increase resiliency of IBM zAPM Connect runtimes in shared Kubernetes environments

In shared Kubernetes environments (clusters hosting multiple application workloads), green zones for node restarts can frequently be continuous or extensive, not tied to a specific application. Any node may restart at any point for maintenance or ...

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.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Submitted

Externalise all error messages to the SYSLOG

Please add all Joblog Error messages to the SYSLOG so that it can be used to automate/trigger altering through OPS MVS. This is needed from the AGM Interceptor from zCEE and CICS, as well as the Base Component. Thank you
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Running Distributed Gateway on zCX

Having Distributed Gateway running on zCX can help look into this solution a whole for Z. And there a much high processing power and more resources on Z than running on Kubernetes, it can help supporting huge transaction volumes for Mainframe appl...
2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Allow an Explicit SYNCPOINT to trigger end event processing for MQ tracking.

Allow for an explicit syncpoint to signify the end of an event, as opposed to the next successful MQ Get or end of task for zAPM stats gathering. This is required where a single CICS task may process multiple MQ messages, and the context of a ...

Support CICS JSON Web Services calls

Customer is converting SOAP web services into Rest JSON web services to call CICS programs, need ZAPM Connect to support this application transformation.
3 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Reference Application for zAPM components

Consider shipping reference application style scripts/injectors/stubs with the zAPM components to help the deployment teams to verify the installation without having to engage multiple teams across different technology areas. For zCEE - Consider u...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

Allow different zAPM Distributed Gateways to communicate

Where there are multiple DGs that may be globally dispersed, CICS (SYSPLEX1) connected to DG1 => MQ => CICS (SYSPLEX2) connected to DG2 may result in events being sent to different DGs for a single end to end message flow. Even though the DG...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 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