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    Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

    PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
    almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    RIP Replacement for z/Systems Open Systems Network Interface

    1. Cisco is indicating that it is apparently retiring the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) from its routers/switches, z/TPF needs a replacement such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). 2. The most recent addition of Cisco's most recent...
    about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Day of week and Day of month support for ZSTIM

    The TPF ZSTIM table should support additional functionality like "specific day of the week" or "specific day of the month". This was not that hard to implement and improves the capabilities of TPF's scheduler.
    over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

    ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

    Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    MRD( Multiple Release Detection) enhancement

    Requesting two enhancements to the MRD ( IBM for the Multiple Release Detection package) The first request would be to make the timestamp more granular for the release data by changing it from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss. The second request would be to have...
    about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Dignus 2.20 Compiler Support

    Add support for the Dignus 2.1 Compiler. It contains a number of improvements and features that we are keen to leverage including improved hardware support and optimizations that we provided to the Dignus team.
    over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Queue Status Display should include Last Put/Get Date & Time, Message Age, and Queue Existence Times

    We need the ability to see the LGETDATE, LGETTIME, LPUTDATE, LPUTTIME, MSGAGE and QTIME on the ZMQSC DIS QL-qname STAT command similar to the MQ distributed platform. dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTOR) 12 : dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTO...
    about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

    Determining the ports in NSD "OTHER"

    If a port is not in the Services file and there is IP traffic coming in and out on it, the counts are thrown into the "OTHER" bucket. Without going through IP trace there is no easy way to determine what ports are being thrown into the "OTHER" buc...
    over 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) lodic_ext needs CHECKONLY equivalent support

    There is no support for c/c++ applications to use LODIC core resource classes that only target specific core block types. As a result we have to either write our own TPFISOC type functions that issue specific LODIC CHECKONLY calls, or use a user L...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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