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    Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

    IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under 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 ...
    2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

    Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

    Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
    12 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

    Move the Workload Global Table Array (WGTA) above the 2Gb bar

    As the system use grows the WGTA keeps getting bigger and since this is in 31 bit addressable memory below the 2Gb bar at some point we will either have to either sacrifice some other use of 31 bit memory or move it above the bar. This is somewhat...
    7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 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

    New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

    In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    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

    Support for a simpler programming language (For example "SWIFT")

    Assembler, C and C++ are difficult to learn and use and it would be beneficial to have a simpler programming language for application developers.
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Dynamic ENTERs from assembler that involve parameters and C++ programs defined as extern "C".

    There is no support for dynamic enters from Asm that involve parameters and C++ programs defined as extern "C". GNC style parameter passing works to call C programs, but not to call C++ programs defined as extern "C". It does work for the 5th para...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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