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Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Support data compression in the z/TPFDF product (TPFUG Requirement)

Support subfile data compression/decompression with option to compress the entire subfile or selected Lrecs.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Include df lrec stats in DF Data Collection

Include lrec accessing stats as part of tpfdf data collection. Include adds, replaces, deletes for top lrecs and their associated subfiles.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

z/TPFDF read processing should validate and fix backward chain fields as it reads forward

As TPFDF read processing reads forward through a given subfile from the prime block to the 1st overflow, the 2nd overflow, and so on, TPFDF should validate that the backward chain in the next block contains the file address of the previous block. ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Make CRUISE Startup more like ZUDFM INIT

We had a situation where automation must have been running behind, so an operator started a CRUISE Capture job and before it completed, automation started. So we had this sequence:START job (by functional entry twice) and before it completed, STAR...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Add TPFDF function details to macro trace in a post processed dump

TPFDF calls appear in dump macro trace as an ENTRC to a UA** assembler program, the reader must then consult the TPFDF programs for details of the actual function.Could this information be included in the macro trace on the same line as the ENTRC?...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 5 Future consideration

TPFDF Cruise Verify should give number of items per Lrec Id

Today the CRUISE VERIFY utility gives the total number of ITEMS.We would appreciate to have also the number of items for each Lrec id.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

Lrec ID data collection

TPFDF needs to collect statistics on the access/updates by Lrec id for a given file. These stats do not need to be collected for all files.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

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