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    RTMC NVP metric support

    Today, name-value pairs can be horizontal or vertical annotations of the message being processed. We need to be able to send customer defined metrics as part of the name-value pair data as metrics that behave as data columns instead of the as anno...
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

    When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Require Domain Specific DNS server support

    The current DNS support defines a primary/secondary DNS server for name resolution. We have a requirement to be able to user our default DNS servers, but for specific Domain Names we need to access our customers DNS server for name resolution. The...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

    Dignus 2.20 Compiler Support

    Add support for the Dignus 2.1 Compiler. It contains a number of improvements and features that we are keen to leverage including improved hardware support and optimizations that we provided to the Dignus team.
    over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Restart a failed shared SSL daemon process automatically?

    Using the description from the CASE.jvfarmer (IBM)Jan 18, 2022, 08:42We have been working on diagnostic improvements to shared SSL, and have gotten some corruption detection in place, but we don't believe adding this code formally is the correct a...
    almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Use XWBs for MPIF and IPC

    In previous exchanges with IBM re: XWB usage, it was noted that MPIF and IPC were not changed via PJ45291 to use XWBs. That being the case, we will not be able to reduce frame usage even after the PJ45291 is applied, which somewhat defeats the pur...
    almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    TPF DNS CACCHE TTL and CASTOUT

    Currently the ZCACH and ZDTCP DNS entries are deficient in providing the ability to search for a hostname in IDNSHOSTNAME Cache and display it's associated TTL TOD value. Suggest that the "z" entries be enhanced to provide the TTL expiration ...
    almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

    Encrypt the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards

    IRS would like to ask if the TPF lab would consider encrypting the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards. Currently it is not-encrypted (its on the LAN, not the WAN, its local traffic only). But we’re being asked to verify tha...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Data reduction system-wide CPU and mils enhancements

    Request the following NEW metrics in data reduction reports to allow for easier tracking of transactional workload once LP workload increases:1) System avg Smoothed Adjusted CPU. Avg calculated for in-use (not fenced) i/streams2) System avg "Trans...
    about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance zfile tar to include a compression option

    zfile tar should include compression to reduce the output for easier archiving and backup. This should take advantage of IBM's hardware compression.
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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