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(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Software profiler post processor TRAP should be moved to Linux

Software profiler output on TPF can be written to tape or a file system file, but must be post processed on zOS. The post processor should be supported on Linux.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would b...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Collection Metrics on Preallocated ECB heap and application stack

Expanding preallocated heap and appplication stack storage can consume signficiant memory since the increase applies to all allocated ECBs. We need more metrics to understand the distribution of prealloacted heap/application stack usage by ECBs th...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Planned for future release

TPF CPU Measurement report for our clients

This request is for IBM to provide HP with the ability to provide CPU measurement reporting for TPF systems running for one of our clients. The data will help both provider and customer manage the CPU performance of the TPF applications and system...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Data collection should support user message counters and a customizable weighted message calculation

• A vanilla object code version of offline DATAREAD should be shipped so that customers with no local mods do not have to compile the offline code. If customers can use the vanilla shipped DATAREAD they would not need a PL/1 compiler and could sav...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 4 Not under consideration

Allow for microsecond precision on IP trace

We would like the ability to specify the time down to microseconds, when requesting IP trace output.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 3 Not under consideration

CDC enhancement to the CDC_PREDEFINED_USER_DATA collector.

CDC and the Tivoli monitor agent provide an excellent way to collect and monitor TPF system performance and status data. We would like to make use of this facility to collect and monitor Marriott metrics. The current design of the user data collec...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Hold low priority SIPCC items until 1052 state.

Hold the processing of low priority IPC items until the system reaches 1052 state. In our loosely-coupled systems, particularly in PSS we had experienced application SIPCC items which come from up and running processors interfering the system IPL....
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

User area in SS clock record (#IBMMS, ordinal #ST0TMON)

HP zTPF systems have a few global fields that contain next Spring and Fall time change day. Tens of Sabre APPS use these fields along with today's date (@U1DAY) to determine if today belongs in DST or not. It is hard to pursue Sabre to change thei...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

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