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Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound services, such as sending an outbound MQ, or calling another Web Services which resides in a distributed system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 2 years 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...
over 2 years 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...
over 2 years 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.
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Check the OPENS dependency last

Check the OPENS dependency last. OPENS is satisfied BEFORE any FOLLOWS so when we check for database processes being there, the OPENS has already been done, and the the FOLLOWS hold the job up, and when it runs the database has come down.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Every jobs dont repeat if the previous one has failed.

We would like an EVERY job to run in its next "time interval" even if it failed/error the previous attempt
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Check subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX

WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX immediately ends when IWS subsystem is not active or available and job step terminates with RC=12. It can be usefull to have the possibility to check the susbystem availability and eventually retry the connection again. Sub...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

The "Actual Run Time" format changed from IWS9.3 to IWS9.5

Dear Support, Please refers to the files uploaded. The time format of "Actual Run Time" from the files under stdlist has changed from MM:SS to HH:MM. Is there any way I can keep the old time format, MM:SS? Regards, Jay
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TWS Job Status 'FAIL' records to be logged onto JOB_HISTORY_V DB View

Currently, TWS design only counts 'Success' and 'ABEND' job status for Job Statistical analysis and only these records are being inserted into JOB_RUN_HISTORY table, due to which we could only get Job Status conditions 'S' and 'A' from JOB_HISTORY...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Sensitive Information transmission in URL

It is recommended to avoid passing sensitive information like session id , User id , user name and password ,secure token and , Unique Id etc. using GET request or through URL throughout the application. It is recommended to implement the solution...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration