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    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

    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

    RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

    Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
    about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

    How to prevent queueing msg's for specific transaction

    When a bmp is inserting msg's on the IMS-Q for a specific transaction which can not be processed by IMS due to a logical error, IMS-Q is raising all the time which ultimately can lead to a fail of IMS. While a lot of bmp's are running at that time...
    over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    OTMA orphaned TIBs clean up

    On May 26th, 2022, we had an incident due to IMS was reaching the maximum limit of TIBs As per the analysis, the situation was being caused by orphaned TIBs (case TS009519474) According to the analysis, some transactions coming from MQ-OTMA did...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

    New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

    Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
    over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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

    Customer would like to have DataPower support for resume Tpipe. Have Front side Handler for ICON (Resume Tpipe support)

    Customer applications are using ISRT ALTPCB and Datapower only supports ICAL and customers have to revise applications. It is a bottleneck to deploy Datapower to customers . It would be awesome if Datapower can support Resume Tpipe and nothing wil...
    almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

    IMS Connect option to close sessions with a FIN at shutdown

    At an IMS Connect Shutdown, IMS Connect stops listening on the ports and closes the TCP/IP communication. It is not closing each session and sending a FIN to the front-end devices. we would like a parameter or option that will perform the "clean"...
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    (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

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