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Add an option to allow APA to identify areas in foreign address spaces

In our shop, IMS and CICS run as JOBs, as opposed to Started tasks, and when capturing APAs for IMS Dependent Regions, areas that are in the IMS CTL or DLISAS cannot be identified by APA, showing as "Unresolved Addresses". Add a customizable optio...
about 3 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve DWARF support in APA

When compiling the reports, keep the DWARF portion of the program object with them, to allow viewing the source listing even after a program has been recompiled and its PO overwritten.
over 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

Extending Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)

Is there any plan in the roadmap to extend Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)?
about 5 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Application Performance analyser (APA) - Cross region and cross LPAR ability for CICS transactions

A CICS transaction can execute across multiple regions in the same LPAR or in other LPARs. It would make analysis more complete if all of the performance data including CICS, DBMS(s) and file accesses etc could be shown for a single transaction re...
over 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Italian Customer is interested to navigate into APA reports using a Brower as interface.

I visited this week SIA Customer (Leader in Banking Services based in Milan : https://www.sia.eu/Engine/RAServePG.php/P/261610010101/L/1 with branches in Belgian, Dutch, Europe ..). They are very interested to APA and FA, to complete the PD tool s...
almost 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RSA - R?gle "V?rifier la valeur du SQLCODE apr?s un EXEC SQL" et utilisation des WHENEVER

Voir ticket TS002533616
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Future consideration

R?gle d'identification des cas de manipulation de donn?es via (position:longueur) Rule of identification of data manipulation cases via (position: length)

Des développeurs cèdent à la facilité de tester et manipuler des données (y compris en table DB2) via des "rubrique(position : longueur)". Il faudrait une règle valable en COBOL natif comme en COBOL issu de RPP pour pouvoir repérer ces cas.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Java Messuring on Application Base for Cics

We have a Cics Liberty (standalone mode) with multiple applications. If we want to turn on APA in Production this will measure a lot.... We would need a possibility to spezify the application or application jar file to be measured. Liberty is call...
over 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Capture line counts for non-IPDS printers

Line counts are not being reported in QAUDJRN system journal.
over 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration