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z/TPF Product Family

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).
2 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.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit Not under 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...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

ZUDFM INIT database initialization functionality to run concurrently with application workload

Problem: Visa recently initialized a new 4 billion database allocation, this was done during a 4-hour outage window because the existing ZUDFM INIT throttling doesn't give enough control to run it in Norm state with application traffic. Even in 10...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF Future consideration

Functional entry to update CTKI enterprise name and complex name fields

CTKI contains two fields that are hard-coded that identify the system: IC0ENTR DC CL8' eee' ENTERPRISE NAME, RIGHT JUSTIFIED IC0COMP DC CL8'ccccc' TPF COMPLEX NAME Something like ZCTKI ALTER ENTR xxxx COMP yyyy Where one or both keyword options co...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future 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 ...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

z/TPF support for application logging

As more and more traffic moves towards TLS, a mechanism to diagnose application data problems is needed. In addition, with TLS aside, compressed messages also obscures the data. Rather than every customer create home-grown application logging solu...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

One of our customers is complaining about the inefficiency of IBM Business Events Unordered Dispatch Queue using a default 32,000 byte buffer for their larger Event Message Feeds which exceed the default buffer length and results in MQGET/decompressing the message twice. The customer is planning on turning on Compression for IBEV.UNORDERED.DISPATCH.QUEUE; however, they are requesting we increase BEVQ_DEFAULT_BUFFER_LENGTH in bevq.cpp:

Inefficient behavior: BEVQ allocates a 32000 byte buffer to read the messages, if the buffer is not large enough the MQGET has decompressed the message it then returns MQRC_TRUNCATED_MSG_FAILED, and leaves the message on the queue. It then realloc...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

We don’t have insight into all the data in AWS so we don’t know what the highwater maximum message sizes before/after compression and mqm we are sending out are.

Regarding average and largest uncompressed message sizes, I nor the customer are aware of any existing tools available to gather this information for IBM BEV dispatch queues. Additionally, while I was on vacation the customer requested in November...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Future consideration

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