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Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
4 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

Update ZOVFS mkusr command with longer/complexer user-id/password and default directory

With the current ZOVFS mkusr command we can add users with an 8 character alphanumeric user-id and password. A longer user-id (e.g. up to 25 characters) which can also contain special characters gives more flexibility for adding users, e.g. using ...
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Extend message "OLDR3024W name – GROUP NAME groupname IN LOADSET lsname DOES NOT EXIST – TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID" with the name of the file

I have a loadset with about 300 files and receive during the zoldr load the following warning message: OLDR3024W 00.42.50 CLDZ - GROUP NAME tpfdfl IN LOADSET Z77167 DOES NOT EXIST - TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID^ It's hard to check all the comp...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Functional entry to update CTKI enterprise name and complex name fields

CTKI contains two fields that are hard-coded that identify the system: IC0ENTR DC CL8' eee' ENTERPRISE NAME, RIGHT JUSTIFIED IC0COMP DC CL8'ccccc' TPF COMPLEX NAME Something like ZCTKI ALTER ENTR xxxx COMP yyyy Where one or both keyword options co...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

z/TPF support for application logging

As more and more traffic moves towards TLS, a mechanism to diagnose application data problems is needed. In addition, with TLS aside, compressed messages also obscures the data. Rather than every customer create home-grown application logging solu...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Enable High Speed Connector Sessions/Groups in 1052 state

Enable HSC groups to be capable / available in 1052 state. Because we can have sockets/sessions connected in 1052 state, we would like to use sockets/sessions in cycle up to verify that we have network connectivity prior to NORM state. This issue ...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Improve quality of service by keeping client bound messages in the buffer until they are delivered

Right now client bound messages are dropped on the floor when a heartbeat is lost and the client reconnects. This causes serious issues for us, particularly in prod during heavy automation critical message traffic. We just had 2 prod job failures ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Future consideration