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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

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.
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under 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...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under 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...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

A mechanism should be given to prevent the system from being paused (via pausc) for more than a couple of minutes

The pausc macro is used to stop all activity on other i-streams so critical fields can be updated. It is mean to be only done for a really short time. If the system does not get unpaused for some reason, Input list shutdown will occur and the and ...
about 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...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Desire to have LONG RUNNING ECBS as a part of CDC

We have a desire to include LONG RUNNING ECBS, as currently in the standard IBM Data Collection. In the data collection, the output looks as follows (where the value of long running ECBS is 919.000): SYSTEM SUMMARY REPORT 19 MAR 14:00:02 SYSTEM PA...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 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 ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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