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    Enable zTPF to run without tapes

    Allow TPF to run if no tape drives are available. If no tape drives are operational all the operator has to do is enter a command to disable tape operations which forces tpf to purge all tape queues and throw away all tape writes but allow the sys...
    about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Determining the ports in NSD "OTHER"

    If a port is not in the Services file and there is IP traffic coming in and out on it, the counts are thrown into the "OTHER" bucket. Without going through IP trace there is no easy way to determine what ports are being thrown into the "OTHER" buc...
    about 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

    Rearrange CPS0 to make better use of EDAT-1

    The CP is a high performance area and 60-70% of CPU processing takes place within it. The CP in zTPF is 2.5MB, the first MB is addressed via DAT but the remaining 1.5MB is addressed by EDAT-1. Therefore as a suggestion would it make sense to move ...
    about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Implement preserve-root option on zfile rm

    zTPF should request "positive confirmation/are you sure" on certain potentially harmful ZFILE commands.
    about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

    software profiler weighted message

    The request is for the software profiler to use weighted message rate like Data reduction is using. In addition it would be useful to show what traces are enabled as part of the run.
    about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

    Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
    about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

    ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

    The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
    about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    ZRTMC Results Monitor

    The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
    about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Basic Authentication support in zTPF HTTP Server

    There is currently no system level code (such as CHT1/2/3) support for this standard "Authorization" HTTP header and zTPF shops have to create their own way for this support. Even though this header is a standard feature in the HTTP server, adopti...
    about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Need additional measurements for short-term pools on time between dispense and return

    Need additional measurements for short-term pools on time between dispense and return in order to configure directory set size and to understand recycle time. It is suggested to provide this information by pool section and by record ID by pool type.
    over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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