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The load balancing of activity between I-streams and ECBs during CRUISE RESTORE tape roll-in needs to be improved

The load balancing of activity between I-streams during the tape roll-in phase of a restore is not very effective. If the default DEFRC option is setup, most of the processor MIPS are used up by the driver ECB doing “DEFRC”. A ZSTAT U display will...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

CRUISE should allow FVN (File Version Number) to be used with REF= parameter when specifying a file ID range.

CRUISE should allow FVN (File Version Number) to be used with REF= parameter when specifying a file ID range. This will make it easier to create DBDEF's specifically for large captures. Special DBDEF's with user-exits can be set up for the system ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Enhance CRUISE log file displays to provide more information and improve usability

1. FUNCTION name in system log: The system log does not identify the function that was executed. It would be helpful if the function was included in the log. Looking at the log it is not possible to tell what function was run. . SSU CPU DATE TIME ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Delivered

Enhance CRUISE (FCRU) displays and messages to provide more information and improve usability

Status displays and Completion Messages 1 Change time-stamp display: The time stamp of the CRUISE status and completion messages does not fit the format of the time-stamp of TPF messages. This makes the display somewhat difficult to read. If the o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

write java log to spool directly without CICS TDQ

currently , customer can redirect java log to spool, but user has to define TDQ and TDQ JCICS call is used. which is inconvenient and performance is bad. Customer want JVMSERVER in CICS can write log to spool directly without CICS TDQ.Customer sai...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add OSA Express type 5 to Enterprise Navigotor OSA port Navigator

Current Enterprise Navigator for OSA port Summary, does not have OSA 5 workspaces. With the new EC12's having OSA 5, and the reduction or sunset of OSA type 2, replace those pannels with OSA 5 data
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Provide option in CRUISE Restore to write fixed file blocks directly to their fixed file addresses, bypassing the pool copy.

For a production system, there is live data and traffic so the integrity of the system has to be the primary consideration. However, in the context of building a test system or creating test data, the strict integrity requirement can be relaxed. O...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

CICS Configuration Manager Enhancements

add to change packages resources the possibility to put, for resource installation, the list of cics where the installation will take place (the lists is made by cics SYSIDs known by cics/cm during "cics confiurations" setup).The same information ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Enhance CICS Transaction Server Loader Domain Services to detect CICS program release mismatch at product initialization

CICS Transaction Server Loader Domain should be enhanced to detect CICS program release mismatches during product initialization. During domain initialization for the various CICS domains, Loader Domain ACQUIRE_PROGRAM requests for system componen...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

TCP Ephemeral Port Range

The z/TPF TCP/IP stack is using the port range 1024-5000 for outbound connections which was consistent with the BSD implementation at the time the inboard stack was introduced to TPF4.1. However since RFC6335 was published in August 2011 the best ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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