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IBM Z

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Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Not under consideration

FP DEDB and MSDB support by Instana on z

According to the manual (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iooz?topic=components-z-apm-connect-ims-data-producer), FP DEDB and MSDB databases in IMS MQ Bridge transactions are not supported by Instana.Our customer is using this function and they want to...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 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).
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Link the Trace ID from Instana UI to external ELK dashboard

For Instana monitoring z/OS application, there are more detail monitoring metrics from z/OS platform and usually be avialable in ELK stack. The trace data catpured by Instana on z/OS has some correlation with the transactional metrics collected by...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Not under consideration

Display summarized mainframe CPU consumption of all JDBC calls to Db2 on z/OS of a single frent-end request, and Instana dashboard can sort by this summarized CPU time.

Mainframe CPU consumption is critical data for application monitoring, currently Instana on z/OS can collect CPU time from SMF data for each JDBC call to Db2 on z/OS and all these data have been sent to Instana. It will be very valuable and helpfu...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Trace for JDBC requests from DB2 Connect to DB2 on z/OS

For customers using JDBC calls to DB2 on z/OS through an intermediate DB2 Connect server, this is must to compose the complete transaction trace.
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud support for Z APM Distributed Gateway and OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy

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 Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration