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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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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

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

WAS Liberty for z/OS tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction which connects between WAS Liberty on z/OS and Db2 for z/OS via JDBC Type 2.Competitor is Dynatrace which supports WAS Liberty on z/OS but out customer wants to use IBM Instana if this support will be ad...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0

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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

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

Dynamic Courier Scaling

Currently the out of the box implementation enables 3 couriers in the zAPM container, although up to 50 couriers can be used per container. IBM do not offer any information on what a courier can handle in terms of ASID (Address Space Identifier) c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

Multiple MQ monitoring subsystems in an lpar

Currently if any maintenance hits the 3 lmods concerned with the subsystem interface AGMQSTBC/AGMQSTBX/AGMQSSIN we have to either stop all ZAPM activity across that entire image, AGMQ TERM for any MQ regions where monitoring is active, stop CICS r...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

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