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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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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...
6 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

CTG .NET Client Support

We need Instana on Z/OS to support CTG (CICS Transaction Gateway) .NET clients. This will help us better monitor and trace transactions. Please prioritize and implement this feature in Instana. It's crucial for our operations and will enhance our ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Kafka fault tolerance , data loss and scalability improvement.

The zAPM product's Kafka configuration is currently not utilizing persistence storage and is running on a single pod. While this setup may be functional to some extent, it exposes the system to potential risks and limitations. I kindly request you...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Monitor Transactions Originating on z/OS for MQ.

We have been discussing Instana MQ Integration with several Mainframe Clients. MQ is a very broad solution and we are finding that some of our clients have these transactions originating on the Mainframe, but the transaction actually occurred with...
10 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Future 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).
12 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release