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Provide a way of displaying pending ENDCMDs from PIPE KEEPs

When using e.g. PIPE LIT // | KEEP GLOBAL /GDATEST/ 5000 ENDCMD /DATE/ Whilst the KEEP is not expired, we can view it via QRYKEEP command QRYKEEP GLOBAL BNH560I KEEP Status for DSIGKPMT. Keep Number of Total TimeOut Keep ID Class Messages Sto...
5 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

SemiColon not supported by RACF. Netview should translate.

Netview translates several characters (., *, %, &, - and ' '(blank)) prior to making a SAF call because these characters are not supported by RACF. Semicolon is also one that is not supported by RACF (TS006663687). Development should consider ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Move the Workload Global Table Array (WGTA) above the 2Gb bar

As the system use grows the WGTA keeps getting bigger and since this is in 31 bit addressable memory below the 2Gb bar at some point we will either have to either sacrifice some other use of 31 bit memory or move it above the bar. This is somewhat...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Netview ALLOCATE does not permit Concatenations

The Netview allocate command only permits the ability to allocate one dataset to a file name.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

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

(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

Reset Threshold and interval setting in Netview Automaion table

The THRESHOLD and Interval conditions in the Netview automation table are very useful functions for throttling and isolating specific occurrences that should be automated on. Would like a means of resetting these values when certain conditions are...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Ability to specify CZ.PRINT.PREFIX data on the Print command

Currently the format of the Print function is governed by the CNMSTYLE entry of CZ.PRINT.PREFIX which means if you want to alter the format of the output you would need to alter this entry then do a restyle and perform your print. Then go back in ...
6 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Introduce Python into NetView Scripting

REXX is very easy; we all know how to code it and it is easy to learn for the newbies. Still, all the youngsters seem to know coding with Python. Python provides a readily available toolbox, which will help the new joiners to be productive quickly...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration