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    When JAVA Guaranteed Message Delivery to Kafka queues Maximum Queue Depth is set high, MQ does not provide enough precision to alert for a production issue in a timely manner

    ISSUE: One of our Customer's JAVA Guaranteed Message Delivery to Kafka queues Maximum Queue Depths are set high (and about to get higher), due to a requirement to store 36 hours of messages in the event of an extended destination outage. The minim...
    10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

    We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    FM/IMS Database Compare

    This Idea is for a FM/IMS function to do a formatted/synchronized database compare. The goal is to compare a database before and after it is changed, to report on what changed. This is something that is difficult to do without a utility like this,...
    6 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Add ASCII/Text transfer support to the SFTP server

    Currently we are using FTPS support where clients can use both binary and text options while sending files to zTPF. The SFTP support provided only support binary transfers and we would like to be able to offer the ASCII/text option.
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

    Support in File Manager IMS for DBD Partition Definitions

    File Manager IMS (FM/IMS) can process data stored in HALDBs (High Availability Large Databases) and DEDBs (Fast Path Data Entry Databases). For Large IMS Full Function HDAM, HIDAM and INDEX Databases we use for Partitioning the BMC PDF tool (DBD P...
    over 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

    Add support for VSAMDB

    suggest the following enhancements on file manager for vsamdb access 1) list # of JSON records 2) with search filters based on key values 3) both ispf panel and batch interface 4) add and delete JSON records
    6 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

    OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

    As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    FIND with multiple arguments should also be workable in VIEW / EDIT of File manager.

    we came to know that FIND with multiple arguments (eg: FIND 'ARLI' or 'ARTI') will only work in 3.6 (Find/change utility -- FM FCH).These commands should also work in normal view / edit (1 & 2 options in File manager)
    7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Improve FIND command to also work on partial match for numeric fields (Decimal fix, PIC)

    FIND is not working for partial matches on numeric stringsWith out partial match on numeric fields., we always need to rely on templates which is time consuming
    7 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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