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Functional entry to update CTKI enterprise name and complex name fields

CTKI contains two fields that are hard-coded that identify the system: IC0ENTR DC CL8' eee' ENTERPRISE NAME, RIGHT JUSTIFIED IC0COMP DC CL8'ccccc' TPF COMPLEX NAME Something like ZCTKI ALTER ENTR xxxx COMP yyyy Where one or both keyword options co...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Format the saved packet trace information to show the TLS handshake

We would like to be able to display the TLS handshake information and the supported cypher suite in a network connection, in the formatted packet trace, something like this:Record 1 Protocol ........ HANDSHAKE ( x'16' ) Version ......... TLS 1.2 L...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 3 Future consideration

Extend message "OLDR3024W name – GROUP NAME groupname IN LOADSET lsname DOES NOT EXIST – TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID" with the name of the file

I have a loadset with about 300 files and receive during the zoldr load the following warning message: OLDR3024W 00.42.50 CLDZ - GROUP NAME tpfdfl IN LOADSET Z77167 DOES NOT EXIST - TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID^ It's hard to check all the comp...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

ASID needed as condition item in IF-THEN statement

With the IF-THEN statement we often process messages that are intercepted by NetView Automation. To evaluate the message, there are several condition items available. However, if a specific task that has been started several times under the same j...
11 months ago in IBM Z NetView 4 Future consideration

z/TPF support for application logging

As more and more traffic moves towards TLS, a mechanism to diagnose application data problems is needed. In addition, with TLS aside, compressed messages also obscures the data. Rather than every customer create home-grown application logging solu...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

NetView : Allow site-customizable default CANZLOG filters for CNMKCZLG panel

Provide the capability for sites to cusomize the default filters of the Z Netview CANZLOG panel CNMKCZLG. The NetView command CANZLOG panel CNMKCZLG provides default filters of: To: [current date & time] For: 1D 0H 0M If the user wants recent ...
3 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

NetView E/AS improve logging and integrate in CANZLOG

NetView E/AS should provide more information about what is done with a processed event. This information as well as all E/AS messages should be available via the CANZLOG and eligible for automation.This way we would be able track the sending of an...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

SAF data set access check for target task's user profile to consider access of user profile for the task from which the command originated.

When using EXCMD to route a dataset update through an autotask, we have noticed that the access used is the access of the autotask itself, rather than the orignating user. This means that a user could maliciously update datasets just by routing th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Delay processing of missed messages when NetView address space is recycled

We use the MVSPARM.Msg.Automation.MaxAge = 600 function, so NV will catch up on messages following a recycle of the address space. However, we recently missed automating a message following a recycle as it was coded in SA’s INGMSG02 table and this...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Enable High Speed Connector Sessions/Groups in 1052 state

Enable HSC groups to be capable / available in 1052 state. Because we can have sockets/sessions connected in 1052 state, we would like to use sockets/sessions in cycle up to verify that we have network connectivity prior to NORM state. This issue ...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration