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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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

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 ...
27 days ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Allow MQ Put intercept via CICS transaction ID filter as opposed to MQ Queue name

For CICS => MQ => CICS tracking, MQ Queue name has to be specified in the AGMSYSIN for the MQ Put to be intercepted and instrumented. Please allow, as an alternative, for a parameter to specify the CICS transaction ID instead of the MQ Queue...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

Support DTP tracing/tracking without AGMSYSIN transaction ID filters

Please provide the ability for CICS DTP transaction tracking without having to configure include filters in AGMSYSIN, so that it will only be triggered when a tracking token/singularity header/parent span is present.
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review