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z/TPF

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IP Probe: A “telnet-like” IP probe utility for z/tpf

The release of this tool to the public domain has been requested and authorised by sncf tpf systems management. The full code and documentation is available at https://bitbucket.org/iansw/public/src/master/IP%20Probe/ Background: Whilst the use of...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

We would like digitally signed software downloads for the z/TPF Product Family

Enacting this policy (digitally signed software downloads) would save my team a lot of unnecessary paperwork.
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Toolchain support for building code with multiple versions of the compiler

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Create new 'lodic' type of API for TCPIP specific system load/availability

Allow an ECB or time initiated function to check TCPIP resource utilization in order to determine if the ECB has sufficient network resources to run or defer/delay its execution.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Requirement for a Capture/Restore mechanism for MQ messages

The below is a snippet from the IBM MQ documentation for z/OS. We believe this pertains to the utility that we require: However we might require this message/restore capability to operate with the QMGR Active rather than Down. Additionally we woul...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to weighted msg rate data reduction metrics

Requesting new metrics for rates per weighted messages that exclude work driven by LP ECBs. Specifically:1) VFA, tape, and 3390 rates per weighted message2) Enters per weighted message Note: high priority RFE id 152827 requests mils/weighted messa...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF Online Image Compare

An online compare will compare the image that the system is actively running on to a staged image. It compares the actual object text and identifies the differences. Note: the online compare (by the fact that it is an online object compare), will ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Add MSU consumption on ZSTAT display

Create a zstat display that will show MSU consumption, similar to zstat GP.
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration