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    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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

    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...
    9 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.
    9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

    Outbound support via z/OS Connect EE

    Please support zAPM tracking of outbound traffic(API requestor), ie, CICS to CICS via https / z/OS Connect EE (similar to CICS=>MQ=>CICS tracking which has recently been released). This needs to be configurable as not all the APIs providers ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

    Collect transaction level performance data and correlate with trace for mainframe CICS transactions to help problem diagnose

    Transaction level performance metrics data, like CPU consumption, file locks, or DB2 package information, for a CICS transaction are the most of key metrics during a problem determination use case. Collecting these kind of data and correlate with ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future 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.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future 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...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

    CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support without having application to handle the addition RFH V2 header

    CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support(OA62795) is rely on addition RFH V2 header. With feature enabled, either corresponding application needs to be enhanced to handle the addition header or q ueue definitions has to change to propctl=none. The requiremen...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future 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 Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

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