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Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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Enhancment to S09 Report in APA

Enhance the S09 Report to include buffer information from batch jobs
about 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring Agent for OpenStack enhanced to support v3 API

Monitoring Agent for OpenStack doesn't currently support v3 API connections. The version of OpenStack that is being used at my location is running the v3 API, as a result we are not able to benefit from the monitoring functionality provided by the...
over 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Show additional system activity at the time of an Observation Session

Show what was executing on the system at the time an observation session was occurring.
about 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide an Expert View Report

This report should shows the findings of the current APA Measurement Analysis with the the pertinent portions of the referenced reports automatically inserted.
about 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Websphere Message Broker Flow

Show statistics for Websphere Message Broker Flows
about 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

User mods needed for APA

Product : Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS Base12.1.0 Component ID: 5655W7100 We have made changes to APA as suggested by the Customization guide. I don't see any provided user mods.Some of the changes we made and would like to have in us...
almost 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Failing security messages causing confusion

Request pre-checks on inactive jobs the unauthorized messages could be suppressed but the messages for actual failed requests could still be generated.
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Native stored procedures not being sampled

Native stored procedures currently are not supported in APA however they are being recommended by DB2 support as more efficient.Customer need to monitor their performance.
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Source mapping with common list not possible with subroutines

When source mapping of an EPLI application is used with a common list, APA attempts to load source using the CSECT name first, and if that is not found then it uses the load module name. Usually EPLI source is stored with its modulename and not wi...
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove APA requirement for UID(0) when measuring JAVA

In order to obtain full information about JAVA code, APA currently either needs to run with UID(0) or else with the UID of the WAS address space being measured, which is not practical. Th use of UID(0) is being challenged by our Security standards...
about 12 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration