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Status Delivered
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 20, 2019

z/OS Connect API -> Transaction Tracing

Objective
To be able to identify performance degradation at a single API/transaction level in both CICS and IMS

Description
The business has an operational requirement to track every z/OS Connect API call which hits CICS / IMS DC (currently offered by the SMF123 data cut by z/OS Connect). However, they also need to correlate specific z/OS Connect API calls with the transaction/program that ran in CICS/IMS. This is for real-time monitoring and diagnostic purposes.

Technical Requirements
1) Generate a z/OS Connect API Correlation Token (unique to that specific API call)
2) Add that Correlation Token to SMF123 record
3) Flow Correlation Token to subsequent transaction systems (CICS & IMS Connect)
4) Add that Correlation Token to SMF110 record (CICS) and IMS Connect Log records

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Mar 27, 2020

    This requirement is addressed by z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition V3.0.30 / APAR PH19977:
    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/3810447

    We have created a version 2 of the SMF 123 subtype 1 records to give you more detailed information about your API provider requests. These include details about the service provider and the System of Record (SOR), and also any request and response headers used.

    For further details see:
    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/monitoring/smf_provider_v2.html

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Correlation between API calls and CICS transactions

Merged
Idem to RFFE ID 131148 (z/OS Connect API -> Transaction Tracing)
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered