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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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Logical grouping of z/os Connect server nodes into Tiers

Allow zCEE servers to be logically grouped into Tiers on AppD dashboards rather than single node per Tier - the same as for CICS regions.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

J2C Protocol support on zAPM Connect

The WAS Socket communication links, based on the J2C protocol does not support header injection (tagging) to allow correlation of transactions and visualization of zOS components on the AppDynamics Controller GUI.Approximately 50% of our organizat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Make zAPM Containers sysplex compliant

Please allow for CICS regions on 1 LPAR to connect to containers on another LPAR if the container on the same LPAR should become unavailable/experience issues or are unable to connect to the DG. It would seem dataspaces are used currently which is...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future 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...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future 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 ...
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

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration