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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

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Future consideration

Enhance functionality for SA's E2E automation

Enhance functionality of SA's E2E Automation so that the E2E Manager knows about requests of a local Automation Manager and thus is enabled to show correct Status of a referenced resource.The REF-resource's Status on the E2E Manager System should ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 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 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Toolchain support for building code with multiple versions of the compiler

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

CICS Event to interact with ML for z/OS

update CICS Event to be able to call the Machine Learning for z/OS product. This will enable any CICS user or CICS system event to interact with the latest in mainframe analytics tools. The event could inject data into the ML service in addition t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Configuration of hostname(s) for RSE API

Remote System Explorer API is currently outputting messages to STDERR when the external DNS name does not match the local hostname of the LPAR: request host doesn't match server - possible host header injection! This message is used within the con...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Delivered

IBM RFE for CTG To Support Insertion of AppDynamics Unique Transaction ID Into ODR Data Field

Our Mainframe event Acquisition System (MEAS) software product is integrated with AppDynamics Application Performance Monitor (APM). This integration allows APM to monitor transactions that cross platform boundaries, such as from a Windows Applica...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 6 Future consideration

Host On Domand User Administration User Listing Function Miss

Recently, I start to manage HOD v. 11.0 in our origination, short after I found I can not copy the users list to word or text file. I can not export the list of user out of HOD. Our county security auditor group inquire list of user in all differe...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

ENTRY POINT CONTAINER DEFINITION

We are running Java and PL/1 in an application context. As the developers have started to integrate Java in our environment we have the need of an communication between two applications. This all works fine, if you are not shipping data from one l...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration