APM solutions provide visibility, control and automation of your hybrid cloud applications to ensure optimal performance and efficient use of resources. Z APM Connect pulls your Z data into these tools and extends APM visibility to the mainframe while optimizing for lightweight performance.

With the rapid adoption of complex hybrid cloud applications spanning mobile devices, public cloud and on-premises environments, it has become more critical than ever to have an application-centric view that can quickly isolate application issues and prevent the need for war rooms. You'll have a complete view of everything you run in one location.

For many organizations, application complexity has gone so far that it has overwhelmed the capabilities of talented engineering and IT teams. Tracing the root of an issue is becoming increasingly critical as complexity grows. Still, you'll now have access to detailed visual references that enable your team to diagnose and correct critical issues in minutes, not hours or days.

Whether you are a seasoned SME or a non-Z application owner, our intuitive visuals allow anyone to isolate a problem. We give the APM user visibility into Z transaction-level details such as CICS region name or program name that they can use to communicate an issue with the Z SME better. Better communication means fewer war rooms and little to no downtime to avoid a crisis.

What was previously a mainframe black box has transformed to multiple layers of visibility as transactions hop between z/OS Connect, CICS and IMS to backends like IMS DB, Db2 and VSAM. Z APM Connect can surface some key metrics for these hops like response time, call count, ABEND codes and more. Obtain transactional data and details from IBM CICS, IMS, CICS Transaction Gateway, Db2 and z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition.