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z/TPF Product Family

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Optimize tagged heap lookup service routine.

Currently tpf_eheap_tag() and tpf_eheap_locate() are convenient APIs to retrieve heap buffer addresses across an ECB's lifetime. The tpf_eheap_locate() service routine in the CP executes a sequential search through all heap buffers until the provi...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Allow High-Speed Connector to function in CRAS state or above

RTMC uses the high-speed connector to send data to the off-host Linux listener. Since RTMC is the new way to send performance data, and eventually user data, we do have a need to know what the system is doing in all states.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) VFAFILL=NO support for TPFDF

PJ46019 provided support for VFAFILL=NO. This allowed read intensive utilities to read VFA candidate records from disk without also putting them in VFA. For read intensive utilities that are only going to read the records once, this avoided displa...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Planned for future release

zTPF Operating System Education for Licensed Customers - Support Staff Skills Development

Develop an educational track containing training modules for licensed z/TPF users to assist in teaching how to manage and support the z/TPF system in their enterprise. Initial training modules needs to focus on task management basics and would cov...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / All components 0 Planned for future release

Enhancing RTMC NVP collection in tpfrtmc to extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data would enable examination of the underlying distributions for better insights that simple averages would hide.

During RTMC NVP collection the tpfrtmc component could extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data, which would include the following: ECB lifetime CPU burn time Finds Files Etc. This would enable examination of the underlying distribut...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Add etos.exe port information to the TOS Gui

The TOS gui includes fields for ETOS.exe's IP address and host port, but not ETOS.exe's port. Adding this field would display all of the connection information for each gui session.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

CRUISE statistics enhancement

Upon completion of the CRUISE utility, users can display statistics gathered on the DF structure that was processed. Currently, statistics show GT 4B when counters exceed the 4 billion mark. We would like to see count fields expanded to make CRUIS...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Planned for future release

VFAFILL=NO support for more macros

The new parameter VFAFILL of the macro FINDC (apar PJ46019) is a very good thing for the RECOUP. We would like to use it on some of our processes but it only exists for the FINDC macro. Could you provide us with the VFAFILL parameter on the other ...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release