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z/TPF Product Family

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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.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a reliable means to identify all tapes associated with a given dump

If a dump spans more than one tape, you must include all tape numbers on the dump post processing request to obtain the complete dump. If you do not include all tape numbers, the post processing will complete with abend code 2999. Although a tape ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) Data reduction system-wide CPU and mils enhancements

Request the following NEW metrics in data reduction reports to allow for easier tracking of transactional workload once LP workload increases:1) System avg Smoothed Adjusted CPU. Avg calculated for in-use (not fenced) i/streams2) System avg "Trans...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Planned for future release

TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

Continuous Data Collection Enhancements

For the Continuous Data Collection Tivoli tool, we would like the following metrics added to the CDC SYSTEM tab:Mils/MsgPathlengthService Time
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) Maintain a waiter count for CORHC/ENQC type events in the event table

The count of waiting ECBs for any given type of event in the event table has to be determined by counting the number of chained SWBs. A count of waiting ECBs should be added to the event table item. This would allow a) fast support for an ENQC enh...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) Alert on event table waiters (CORHC/ENQC) exceeding a user defined value

We need to be able to alert on event table waiters exceeding a user defined value, much like we can currently alert on RHT waiters. The alert would not take any action, it would be a warning mechanism of contention build up. User exits in the supp...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release