OpenTelemetry flows supported in IMS

You can find information about the supported OpenTelemetry flows in IMS.

OpenTelemetry support within IMS and IMS Connect requires a minimum release level of IMS 15.5.

IMS Connect and IMS OTMA will, if configured, propagate the OpenTelemetry context and emit tacking spans in the following transaction flows:
  1. IBM IMS Transaction Manager Resource Adapter (TMRA) 15.3.5 to IMS Connect 15.5 or later.
  2. IMS Connect user-written clients.
  3. z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3 to IMS Connect 15.5 or later.
  4. IMS Connect Java API.
  5. Commit Mode 0 with SyncLevel Confirm transactions flows into IMS Connect.
  6. Commit Mode 1 with SyncLevel None or Confirm.
  7. IMS Full-Function transactions:
    1. Program-Switch
    2. Standalone
    3. Shared Queues
    4. Context propagation through ESAF
  8. IMS Fast Path transactions:
    1. Standalone
    2. Shared Queues where front-end and back-end systems are the same
    3. Context propagation through ESAF is not supported within an IFP region
  9. IBM MQ to IMS OTMA.