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Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
4 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future 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 ...
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

Allow UKO to generate secure HMAC keys

UKO Customers who would like to migrate from legacy to enhanced passtickets would benefit from using UKO to generate HMAC keys for passticket usage
9 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

Idea is to have the current value and the threshold value in the OC8900, OC8902 or OC8903 messages when they are triggering the events.

It will be useful to know the actual value at the time of the issue which will help everyone to understand the situation at that point of time when we have an email notification email/alert. we are expecting the values in the N/A > N/A. This wi...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Messages 1 Not under consideration

TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

Update ZOVFS mkusr command with longer/complexer user-id/password and default directory

With the current ZOVFS mkusr command we can add users with an 8 character alphanumeric user-id and password. A longer user-id (e.g. up to 25 characters) which can also contain special characters gives more flexibility for adding users, e.g. using ...
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Bulk/batch operations from the user interface

I wih that the UKO user interface had some way to import a set of keys, instead the key by key option that is possible at the moment
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Extend message "OLDR3024W name – GROUP NAME groupname IN LOADSET lsname DOES NOT EXIST – TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID" with the name of the file

I have a loadset with about 300 files and receive during the zoldr load the following warning message: OLDR3024W 00.42.50 CLDZ - GROUP NAME tpfdfl IN LOADSET Z77167 DOES NOT EXIST - TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID^ It's hard to check all the comp...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration