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    (TPFUG) Stop counting HSC closed by remote server as an error or provide a separate counter.

    Today if a HSC endpoint is using persistent SSL sockets, and the remote server closes the socket it can cause the error count to be incremented. This is noticeable when the remote system implements an inactivity timeout on the socket, and there is...
    about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Enhance Endpoint Descriptor processing and add new ept.xml Elements to change auto-undeploy error processing - adding auto-redeploy.

    An endpoint descriptor is automatically undeployed when the number of consecutive errors is greater than the number of connections defined in the ept.xml. Once the system auto-undeploys the endpoint descriptor, it has to be manually re-deployed (v...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

    Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

    HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Allow ZCDNV to set a configurable number of NVPs that would be displayed on Dump messages sent to prime cras console

    As we increase the use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area is becoming increasingly important to our application developers to rapi...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    ZFILE json display

    As JSON config files are being added to the TPF system, it will be beneficial to have a "pretty json" display available for the TPF file system, where files are encoded in ascii. For example - the configs for ZMATC are json and used to modify the ...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    MRD( Multiple Release Detection) enhancement

    Requesting two enhancements to the MRD ( IBM for the Multiple Release Detection package) The first request would be to make the timestamp more granular for the release data by changing it from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss. The second request would be to have...
    about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    TOS Gui: add ability to save and restore sessions and screen locations.

    Everytime a user opens the TOS Gui, they have to open and arrange all of their desired sessions. This is time consuming and repetitive, especially in a 7x24 environment when tpf operators start their shift. Enhance the TOS Gui to be able to save o...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Need a reliable means to identify all tapes associated with a given dump

    If a dump spans more than one tape, you must include all tape numbers on the dump post processing request to obtain the complete dump. If you do not include all tape numbers, the post processing will complete with abend code 2999. Although a tape ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

    Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

    We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

    Support for multiple Vertical Name-Value Pair metrics collection in Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC)

    Currently RTMC supports a single Vertical NVP collection based on the ECB Owner High field where the performance metrics of an ECB can be subdivided based on each time the Vertical NVP (ECB Owner High) changes. If ECB Owner High is changed as an E...
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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