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IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect

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Add zAPM tracking for z/Os Connect EE OAS3 version

zAPM tracking is supported in z/OS Connect EE OAS2, but not the OAS3 version which means we will lose the ability to track zCEE flows into CICS if we use APIs developed and deployed for the new version. This has also been raised at the zCEE design...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Allow an Explicit SYNCPOINT to trigger end event processing for MQ tracking.

Allow for an explicit syncpoint to signify the end of an event, as opposed to the next successful MQ Get or end of task for zAPM stats gathering. This is required where a single CICS task may process multiple MQ messages, and the context of a ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Better tolerate STOP/START of container

The current iteration of zAPM required specific actions be taken in zAPM when the container or MQ region is stopped or restarted:- "Note: If IBM MQ is stopped or restarted for any reason, you need to either recycle the container address space or r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Delivered

Support long running transactions in zAPM Connect

zAPM Connect needs to support the collection of statistics at Syncpoint intervals instead of only at the end of a unit of work or transactions.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

Add Joblog messages to Syslog request

When will you be adding joblog messages to Syslog requests? When this is available, what will be externalised - errors only or all event types?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

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