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Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Count number of calls of csects/subroutine/entry point

It's important to know how often a csect / subroutine / entry point is called so that you can differenciate if you spend a long time in a single csect / subroutine / entry point or visited several times.
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under 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.
about 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under 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 4 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 9 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 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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 6 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 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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

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