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z/TPF Product Family

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Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under 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.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

RIP Replacement for z/Systems Open Systems Network Interface

1. Cisco is indicating that it is apparently retiring the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) from its routers/switches, z/TPF needs a replacement such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). 2. The most recent addition of Cisco's most recent switch to...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Linux utility tpfdataredux needs completely replace zOS DATAREAD

RFE 39856 requested data reduction be moved to linux. This RFE was closed when linux tpfdataredux utility was delivered in PJ42460. However, tpfdataredux only supports a few reports so we still need to run zOS DATAREAD and cannot realize the benef...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Day of week and Day of month support for ZSTIM

The TPF ZSTIM table should support additional functionality like "specific day of the week" or "specific day of the month". This was not that hard to implement and improves the capabilities of TPF's scheduler.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 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.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Future consideration

High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration