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Norm State Pool Reallocation package

Please see the SR for further information: We have recently used ODBR to move DEVC pools to DEVB. We are now finalizing testing for running a norm state pool re-organization to reassign pools owned by DEVC to the new DEVB owner. Following the norm...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need to see actual addresses of devices that are added/deleted dynamically

CNCE0002I 17.46.27 1 DEVICES ADDED, 0 DEVICES DELETED+CNCE0002I 17.47.07 0 DEVICES ADDED, 1 DEVICES DELETED+ This is the indication you currently get when devices are added/deleted. We would like to see more detail specifically the actual addresse...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Simplify tape handling and add equates to tpftape.h

Enhance ZTDEV and update tpftape.h1. Allow for a range of devices when using the ZTDEV ENA, DISA, [Deleted], and UNA options. Example:ZTDEV ENA 340-F B40-FZTDEV DISA 340-F B40-FZTDEV [Deleted] 340-F B40-F GROUP-ALLZTDEV UNA 340-F B40-F GROUP-ALL 2...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

mask password on ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE

ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE password not masked on the CSMP0099I echoed response. Please update CVAU and CKYZ to do this just like was done for ZKEYS PASSWORD. Thanks
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Continuous Data Collection Enhancements

For the Continuous Data Collection Tivoli tool, we would like the following metrics added to the CDC SYSTEM tab:Mils/MsgPathlengthService Time
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Maintain a waiter count for CORHC/ENQC type events in the event table

The count of waiting ECBs for any given type of event in the event table has to be determined by counting the number of chained SWBs. A count of waiting ECBs should be added to the event table item. This would allow a) fast support for an ENQC enh...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Alert on event table waiters (CORHC/ENQC) exceeding a user defined value

We need to be able to alert on event table waiters exceeding a user defined value, much like we can currently alert on RHT waiters. The alert would not take any action, it would be a warning mechanism of contention build up. User exits in the supp...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Format-2 Globals data collection enhancement

currently ztpf data collection reports statistics for syncc format-2 globals. requesting this reporting be extended to non-syncc format-2 globals. Please consider making this data available through continuous data collection as well.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

ZDPAT enhancement

zdpat c-c should include PATHIACT value in display. coverage team frequently investigates loadsets failing to be accepted. zdpat c-c displays activation number at time loadset was activated. display does not provide activation number at time of ac...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Additional option on ZMQSC DISP QL-* CURDEPTH to limit display

On our system there are 84 local MQ queues defined, of these only a few will have messages queued but to identify these requires a display that shows all queue counts: "ZMQSC DISP QL-* CURDEPTH " An additional "THRESHOLD-1" parameter should be imp...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

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