Version 2.0.00

This section contains information about enhancements in version 2.0.00 of the BMC Application Diagnostics product.

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For information about issues corrected in this release, see Known-and-corrected-issues.

Transaction tracing

BMC Application Diagnostics can now trace the entire structure of a transaction. You can trace a problem with a specific request to the kind of business transaction that is affected, and conversely, you can trace a problem with a business transaction to the specific request that is the root cause of the problem.

For example, a problematic database query informs you that users trying to do money transfers are affected. Conversely, a problem with users trying to do money transfers points to a problematic database query.

Improved tracing for methods that exceed time thresholds

With BMC Application Diagnostics, you can trace transactions across multiple tiers, to the line of the code, without losing the context. The improved tracing applies to both Java and .NET environments.

Enhanced Trace Details views

The enhanced Trace Details window (formerly, Single Transaction window) now shows virtual machines and complex application flow maps. The application flow is interactive so that clicking on a portion shows specific details and compares metrics over the last hour, day, and week. The window no long opens in a separate browser window.

New integrations with technologies and external applications

BMC Application Diagnostics provides several options for sending event information to integrated technologies and external applications. You can send the following kinds of events:

Application events, such as crossing a latency threshold and percentage of errors
Application server events, such as JMX metrics, thread pools, and connection pools
System health events, such as issues with BMC Application Diagnostics agents, collectors or the portal

Java agents send events to the server, and the portal sends the events to the active integrations. You can then create a link from the integrated product or technology to trace details in BMC Application Diagnostics. The following integrations are supported:

BMC ProactiveNet
SNMP
SMTP
Syslog
CSV

Integration with BMC ProactiveNet and service impact modeling

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Enhancements to BMC Application Diagnostics Agent for .NET

The product includes the following updated support:

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology for HTTP and HTTPS bindings as web service entry points. Support is for IIS 7 and later, with the application pool in integrated mode.
WCF technology over HTTP entry points in BMC Real Event User Experience Monitoring and BMC Application Diagnostics integrations
Capture of the following data types, either as web service arguments or as SQL query arguments:
- GUID (unique identifier)
- DateTime
- Decimal

Enhancements to BMC Application Diagnostics Agent for Java EE

Support for IBM WebSphere Application Servers versions 6 – 8 running on z/OS versions 1.12 and 1.13
Max agent policy, which fully activates all recording parameters, for use in small proof-of-concept environments. The Max policy has the following characteristics:
- Captures interesting requests, even if they did not breach any threshold
- Records all types of technologies
- Has a very short heartbeat interval so that agents are updated quickly
General optimizations and performance improvements