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z/TPF

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Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Linux utility tpfdataredux needs completely replace zOS DATAREAD

RFE 39856 requested data reduction be moved to linux. This RFE was closed when linux tpfdataredux utility was delivered in PJ42460. However, tpfdataredux only supports a few reports so we still need to run zOS DATAREAD and cannot realize the benef...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Heap Memory High Watermarks to default RTMC Dashboards for JVMs

We would like to see the 64-bit and 31-bit high water marks for the heap regions used by JVMs limited by MAXXMES, MAXXMAP, and EMPS. This would be incredibly helpful to monitor Java for any problem troubleshooting, and give us an easier way to fin...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide information about loadset resource consumption to warn of possible problems managing very large loadsets

If a loadset contains a very large number of programs, or programs that are very large, activation can result in unexpectedly large increases in CRPA consumption, and loadset accept processing can temporarily consume an unexpectedly large number o...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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