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z/TPF Product Family

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zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Under review

zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Under review

Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
8 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ Configuration file for SSL to support multiple ciphers

We use a common default MQ SSL Configuration file for all our MQ SSL channels. The IBM limitation is that the MQ configuration file can only have one cipher defined, unlike the HTTP & MONGO SSL Configuration files that support the definition o...
8 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Please add the resolved queue name and MQ reason text to the BEVA0015E message

The use of the term "Transmit Queue" in Online Message BEVA0015E is misleading and derails operations staff troubleshooting. In the MQ Vernacular "Transmit Queue" is a special Queue associated with an MQ Sender Channel. For Error Message BEVA0015E...
17 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 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

(TPFUG) Create new DFDL function to release memory when building or parsing while using DFDL APIs

Create function(s) to release memory following the invocation of DFDL APIs. This would alleviate memory leaks when calling the APIs multiple times.
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance Endpoint Descriptor processing and add new ept.xml Elements to change auto-undeploy error processing - adding auto-redeploy.

An endpoint descriptor is automatically undeployed when the number of consecutive errors is greater than the number of connections defined in the ept.xml. Once the system auto-undeploys the endpoint descriptor, it has to be manually re-deployed (v...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Allow ZCDNV to set a configurable number of NVPs that would be displayed on Dump messages sent to prime cras console

As we increase the use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area is becoming increasingly important to our application developers to rapi...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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