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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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Support of the CTG Multiplaform to CICS

For zAPM Connect to track transactions on zSystems, customers infrastructure needs to be compliant with supported components of the solution. To call CICS, several options are supported including the CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway) on z/OS. My cust...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud support for Z APM Distributed Gateway

Please add the official support for Z APM Distributed Gateway and OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy work on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.1) We'd like to know if it would be possible by Dec 92) Our customer requires that the verification test wo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Digital chemical composition analyzer reporter device working with the application software

Digital chemical composition analyzer reporting device for every artificial organic product manufacturing Applied when using Water as raw material air supplied in bubble form and applying particular molecular level energy signal enhancing device f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

For the zAPM Openshift-hosted components, add support for externally-vaulted secrets data such as via Hashicorp Vault for environments where local secrets use is not permitted.

This would be useful for compliance/controls requirements where local Openshift secrets are not permitted. Managed secrets such as externally-vaulted secrets data with access controls are one example of a compliant solution. Benefit is to allow ac...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under 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 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

zAPM tracking data needs to be honored in CPSM routed environments.

I would like for the transaction tracking data to be honored if the transaction is routed dynamically from the TOR without executing. - PMR ID TS003273072
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 2 Not under consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound Web Services which resides in distribute system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Inbound CICS transaction tracking for SNA or IP Sockets connection

Many big bank customers in Asia Pacific have applications like core banking and credit card applications still using SNA or IP Sockets as the inbound connection to CICS transactions, they have interest on Instana's observability especially the tra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration