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As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Add user exit to the ZCPYS zFunction command code to allow the user to set global/switches for utilities active

By inserting a USER EXIT prior to ( and following ) activating a ZCPYS FC FLASH or ZPCYS SGC BACKUP, we can check to ensure that there are no other system critical utilities that are running that may be impacted by the resource intensive Flash/SGC...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

When a task/process fails for ZCPYS we would like a secondary output that shows the first child error to be included with the REST respnose

when a process fails for a ZCPYS we get a generic IWNR1027E error message that states <task> has completed with one or more errors. This doesnt tell the host operator any information, usually resulting in tickets being generated and calls be...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Enable the use of MySQL for RTMC without the need for a MariaDB database

The tpfrtmc package uses MariaDB as the database for storing data received from TPF. Many users have existing MySQL installations which can be leveraged for this use and can thus avoid needing to stand up a special 'RTMC only' database and all of ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Customer requires all runtime metrics collection components, data, logs, etc to be fixed to a single time zone

This aligns the collected results, logs and etc to time frames that align with the other tools, processes, etc in the enterprise. This is a blocker to adoption of RTMC in production.
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Vertical Bar to Toolkit 4.6 LPEX Editor

In TK 4.2 there is a vertical bar showing the continuation column when editing a .asm program. This is controlled from Preferences >> HLAsm Parser >> Margins (must select "Show Margins" and "Enable Margins"). TK 4.6 removes this featur...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

add DFDL the structure to structure support to openAPI

currently only one schema can be defined for request/response in openAPI swagger. This does not allow you to use the DFDL structure to structure schemas. DFDL structure-to-structure schemas have proven to be very good at reducing the amount of mai...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

RTMC - SSL Connections for Kafka

Need the ability to easily configure tpfrtmc and the RTMC analyzer to connect to kafka with SSL. Example of relevant settings below. May not be a complete list. security.protocol=ssl.keystore.location=ssl.keystore.password=ssl.key.password= ssl.tr...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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