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TPFAR needs more flexibility in choosing the Complex Name

TPFAR does not allow for the flexibility of having a Complex Name that is different from the CTKI specified complex name. We should have the option to choose the TPFAR complex name for each TPF system.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ECBRM/ECB Owner Collection - add retention to FS files

When running ZECBM Collect or ZMOWN Collect, the file system is used to hold the .csv results file and in the case of ZMOWN, the config file. This file is pulled off TPF but the online file is left and must be manually cleaned up. For ZECBM Collec...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ECBRM LSETNAME=DEFAULT should be required to prevent erroneous update of the default ECBRM values.

In developing our processes for measuring resource usage and setting up ECBRM in PSS, we feel that application programmers could omit the LSETNAME= parm on the ZECBM SET command which would cause the default table to be updated erroneously. We wou...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB user account password expiration

Please add the ability for user accounts in the TPF MongoDB server to be created and maintained with the following: 1) non expiring password2) a password that changing after a configurable number of days.3) a password that expires and can only be ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB connection limits by user account

Please implement the ability to configure connection limits to the TPF MongoDB server by user account.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Request to have a PCF Command Server

Working with z/OS MQ group on a new application from a 3rd party vendor (NASTEL), it was brought to my attention of a centralized DB of sorts with all current z/OS MQ parameters and status'. When NASTEL was approached by TPF Systems in regards to ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Subsecond retransmit APAR PJ43958 lacks ability to set minimum RTO

With PJ43958, IP retransmit time was reduced from 1-2 seconds to ~20ms. Some connection are known to be low priority with varying network response time. For these connection, we would like to be able to set a higher minimum RTO (similar to how it ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Client Socket Traffic Limiting

Prior to PJ41739, traffic limiting parameters in the Network Services Database (APPLRATE and SOCRATE) could be utilized to limit traffic rate for client sockets. PJ41739 removed the interrogation of the NSD for client sockets. It seems that the pi...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF TE MIPS Reporting of Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP)

1. Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP) must support measuring, collecting and reporting of z/TPF Transformation Engine (TE) MIPS on a per ECB basis. 2. The Owner Name and NVP Resource Collector writes the information to a Tape 3. Tha...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

SCRT IBM Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance SCRT report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions such as: a. Compression i. Compression b. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP c. Middleware Data i. ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration