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Add sort options to the ZDTAP entry

With options to sort on UNIT or Volume, it is easier to see what tapes or units are mounted.At this moment the ZDTAP without option just displays all units and tapes. ZDTAP [SORT [Volume]] would make live much easier for operators to see what is g...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 12 Future consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Heap Memory High Watermarks to default RTMC Dashboards for JVMs

We would like to see the 64-bit and 31-bit high water marks for the heap regions used by JVMs limited by MAXXMES, MAXXMAP, and EMPS. This would be incredibly helpful to monitor Java for any problem troubleshooting, and give us an easier way to fin...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide information about loadset resource consumption to warn of possible problems managing very large loadsets

If a loadset contains a very large number of programs, or programs that are very large, activation can result in unexpectedly large increases in CRPA consumption, and loadset accept processing can temporarily consume an unexpectedly large number o...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Please add the resolved queue name and MQ reason text to the BEVA0015E message

The use of the term "Transmit Queue" in Online Message BEVA0015E is misleading and derails operations staff troubleshooting. In the MQ Vernacular "Transmit Queue" is a special Queue associated with an MQ Sender Channel. For Error Message BEVA0015E...
8 months 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...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance SSL diagnosis

Recently we had a rouge SSL client application not completing the connect SSL handshake. This tied up all out threads in the procs that INET port was defined to. This affect all other port assigned to those procs, and affected other users. More de...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide a way to clear the keypoint staging area for a TLD install

If a TLD is installed that does not include any keypoints then the target image keypoint staging area is untouched. While this can be useful in some cases, it can also lead to unfortunate consequences if a "standard" TLD procedure is adopted to 1)...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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