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    Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

    We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 2 Future consideration

    ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

    ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

    Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Upgrade Kafka Client

    The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Support for a simpler programming language (For example "SWIFT")

    Assembler, C and C++ are difficult to learn and use and it would be beneficial to have a simpler programming language for application developers.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Dynamic ENTERs from assembler that involve parameters and C++ programs defined as extern "C".

    There is no support for dynamic enters from Asm that involve parameters and C++ programs defined as extern "C". GNC style parameter passing works to call C programs, but not to call C++ programs defined as extern "C". It does work for the 5th para...
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Request a C/C++ interface for IBM VSAM macros used in TPF

    Currently only assembler programs can issue the VSAM macros. It is required that C/C++ programs can also issue these macros via function calls in a similar manner.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance SSL diagnosis

    Recently we had a rouge SSL client application not completing the connect SSL handshake. This tied up all out threads in the procs that INET port was defined to. This affect all other port assigned to those procs, and affected other users. More de...
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) - Provide a way to clear the keypoint staging area for a TLD install

    If a TLD is installed that does not include any keypoints then the target image keypoint staging area is untouched. While this can be useful in some cases, it can also lead to unfortunate consequences if a "standard" TLD procedure is adopted to 1)...
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Include df lrec stats in DF Data Collection

    Include lrec accessing stats as part of tpfdf data collection. Include adds, replaces, deletes for top lrecs and their associated subfiles.
    almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

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