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Search results: z/TPF Product Family

Add z/TPF to the supported systems for the MQ Agentic AI

IBM has an MQ Agentic AI and z/TPF will soon support the Agentic AI framework. Having the MQ Agentic AI supported on z/TPF will strengthen the case for customers to try AI and the Watsonx Assistant for Z.
21 days ago in z/TPF Product Family Future consideration

Alternate field for CE3PATSTCK in ECB page 3

We(TPF Software) have compiled our product with the PUT25 updates and are encountering an issue where the field CE3PASTCK has been isolated in IEQCE3.MAC. The CE3PASTCK field is used by our product to update the internal call stack. Is there an eq...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Planned for future release

More quickly identify scope and cause of TCP/IP networking issues

Through discussions with customers, the cost and effort to debug networking problems is high. The z/TPF system and coverage programmers at customer sites spend hours/days proving that the problem is outside of the TPF environment. Many times, cust...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

Enable RTMC to have a streamlined & efficient method to change (some of) the main features displayed on Grafana dashboards.

The goal is to prevent users from having to edit all the IBM Grafana dashboards or create their own scripts to make the changes after each new dashboard upgrade / release. This could possibly be done by enabling RTMC to have global configuration p...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other Planned for future release

To include the full ASSOCIATED LINK MAP DATA block in every zTPF dump capture

there’s a strong case for including the full ASSOCIATED LINK MAP DATA block in every dump capture, with the OBJECT FILE section, the function list, and a COMMENT containing the Change/WE (work effort) build metadata. Our agentic dump analyzer tool...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 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...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit Not under consideration

TPF Operations Server Agent API handler

TPF Operations Server agent API handler accept operation requests from z/TPF agents running in Watson Assistant for Z (WA4Z).
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server Future consideration

TPF Operations Server Python API Support

Provide Python API support to interface with the TPF Operations Server.
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server Future consideration

Support Inbound HTTP Request Body decompression in z/TPF HTTP Server for REST API or application logic

Enhancement to the z/TPF HTTP server to natively support decompression of inbound HTTP request bodies when the Content-Encoding header is set to gzip or deflate. The implementation should leverage existing z/TPF hardware‑accelerated compression ca...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future 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...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration