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CDC - Add volume-serial-number to "TAPE" data being reported on by Continuous-Data-Collection.

Please add the volume-serial number to the existing data currently being collected by Continuous-Data-Collection.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Online load of File system files should be logged by PFS

Since z/TPF software development and version control requires a non-z/TPF platform there is a requirement to maintain on that software development platform a list of programs (and versions) loaded on the z/TPF system.Before TPF41 APAR PJ25880, whi...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZMATC enhancements to modify config files

Introduce a new MODIFY parameter to the ZMATC command such as: ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname VALUE-"value string" ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname REMOVE This command would have the following behaviors: It would modify the s...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Queue Status Display should include Last Put/Get Date & Time, Message Age, and Queue Existence Times

We need the ability to see the LGETDATE, LGETTIME, LPUTDATE, LPUTTIME, MSGAGE and QTIME on the ZMQSC DIS QL-qname STAT command similar to the MQ distributed platform. dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTOR) 12 : dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTO...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Support IDOT definitions at CTL/CAT dump level

ZIDOT does not allow you to associate an override with all CTLs dumps, or all Catastrophic dumps. There are times when we want to add the same storage override to any catastrophic dump but not to all CTL or OPR dumps with SYSDUMP =YES.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Additional information of ZSOCK EXCEPTION display

When we try to find out a remote client who is causing an issue such as high number of retransmission or DOO we use ZSOCK EXCEPTION entry but we have to make another entry ZSOCK DISP FORMAT to find out DNS name and Port number for individual socke...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Implement preserve-root option on zfile rm

zTPF should request "positive confirmation/are you sure" on certain potentially harmful ZFILE commands.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

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