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MQ Trigger support

An important customer in Italy is showing interest in our end-to-end Instana solution (z + dist.). They use IMS as a transaction monitor and applications arrive on the z platform via WASz or via MQ. zAPM Connect currently support only MQ Bridge fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Enhance Python API zsystem.read_console to use OPERLOG

The current capability of the Python API only captures the syslog of the system that the API executes on. If a user wanted to automate some function / task that required capturing messages from the console in a sysplex environment that contains mu...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

HA setup for zAPM in Kubernetes/OSE environment

The current zAPM Implementation is not designed for HA (Active-Passive) setup. The current setup when installed will immediately start querying the configured AppDynamics controllers and is not suitable for passive setup. A HA setup will help with...
3 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Default "Open/Browse" setting when opening members in a PDS

It would be useful for there to be an option under the properties of a library to set the default "open" action for its members. For example, within development libraries, users can set the default action to "Open" members when opening members. An...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
6 months ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow larger variable length fields beyond the current limit of 32767

We’re proposing an enhancement to z/OS Connect’s OPENAPI2 to better handle larger variable length fields. Currently, to accommodate large data returned by our apiRequester endpoint, we’re required to set the varying field to a fixed length (charac...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Access Kafka from CICS

Provide access to Kafka from / to CICS.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

add RMF PCIE panel for Streaming in CDP (Common data provider)

after enabling zHyperlink, it would be usefal that Common data Provider (CDP) could stream PCIE statistics , to use data in Splunk
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Add support for multiline and >1024character line writes

Currently, ZOAU is limited in its ability to write to a z/OS dataset. Currently, the maximum character length for a line is 1024. Splitting a longer string into multiple lines requires multiple calls to datasets.write() since this function takes a...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Planned for future release

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