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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

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support without having application to handle the addition RFH V2 header

CICS-MQ-CICS tracking support(OA62795) is rely on addition RFH V2 header. With feature enabled, either corresponding application needs to be enhanced to handle the addition header or q ueue definitions has to change to propctl=none. The requiremen...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Increase container address space connections to a maximum of 1000 say

I believe the current maximum of 400 connections is to small. In some LPARs we have over 800 CICS regions. I know you can start a second zAPM container in the LPAR but it would be nice to have a start-up parameter to state the maximum with a defau...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under 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

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

Tracking Outbound of the Z

Currently zAPM supports tracking inbound and outbound between Sysplexes over MQ, but it does not currently support calls/transactions going outbound of the Z to another distributed application monitored by AppDynamics. When will outbound (E2E trac...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

zAPM to support iSeries

Include support for iSeries systems, in addition to zSeries
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under 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...
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

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