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z/TPF Product Family

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(TPFUG/Visa) Need to remediate the overhead of special linkage libraries being in loadsets

Frequently Entered Program (FEP) support provides the means to alleviate the cost of having a program in a loadset that is entered many times by the same ECB. The FEP support allows an ECB to determine the version it should use by locking the base...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

(TPFUG) Enable CSV Serialization using DFDL

There is current functionality to create documents from a CSV formatted data stream using DFDL. There is not the inverse functionality. We are currently receiving a number of CSV files which require code to be written to parse the data into a form...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Provide encrypting find/file databases similar to z/TPFDF encryption

As PCI, PII, and GDPR requirements become more and more stringent, it will be as important to encrypt traditional Find/File databases as much as z/TPFDF databases. IBM already provides the built-in ability to encrypt/decrypt through database defin...
9 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.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

RTMC - Grafana links for orgID != 1

The RTMC starter kit dashboards provide internal links that reference orgID=1. This appears to be the default Grafana organization. When multiple organizations are defined in Grafana this may lead to 404 errors when navigating through dashboards. ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Request to IBM to secure all Toolkit to TPF Connections

TPF Toolkit is using unsecured protocols to communicate with z/TPF. Specifically FTP. We are requesting that this protocol be changed to Secure FTP.
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Planned for future release

Add support for CDC_TPFDF to RTMC

Real-time runtime metrics collection supports multiple CDC data types but currently does not support CDC_TPFDF. Requesting CDC_TPFDF be added to the CDC data types supported by RTMC, i.e. DBOPN, DBADD, DBRED, DBDEL + 3 additional user metrics, by ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

z/TPF Large MQ Message Support

1. Mainstream MQ from the IBM Hursley Lab supports up to 100 MByte Messages in both the server and client implementations. 2. The z/TPF version of MQ supports up to 4 MByte Messages. 3. Z/Systems Hardware Compression is not available on z/Systems ...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

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