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NEW option on save regs

Customer is ask for an enhancement to the SAVEREGS option as part of ENTRC, to be able to allow for the exclusion of individual registers, which might need to be excluded to allow for communication between the calling and called segments. All of t...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Subsystem Users Not Collecting Correctly

The subsystem user fields in Continuous Data Collection are not being captured correctly. As it works today, only the AA subsystem user is capturing message data. The other subsystem users will capture USER EXITS and ECBs, but not anything else. T...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

User exit out of SONP for GFS online logging

Currently both CA and CB records are logged to RTA tape but only CA records are stored in FC33. We would like to save CB records to fixed file structure in a similar manner to CA records so that pool usage analysis could be performed. We need user...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Display capability for MQ socket buffer usage

Provide display capability for MQ socket buffer usage (zmqsc statenhancement?) and/or include usage of it in data collection reporting.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Data Collection to count the number of 3ms wait-state PSWs due to DLAYC/DEFRC/YIELDC activity

In CCNUCL there is logic to load a 3ms wait-state PSW after 5 consecutive DLAYC/DEFRC/YIELDC calls if no additional tasks were scheduled from the Ready list.This RFE is to request that Data Collection keeps a count of these wait-state PSWs and rep...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

OWNER option on ECB Create type macro & functin calls

When issuing a create type macro SWISC, CREMC, CREDC, etc, an option is needed to define the ownership ID of the child ECB.This enhancement allows the user to account resource usage by parent and child ECB using independent resource "buckets" in Z...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Business Events to allow Queue Alias for EVSPEC dispatch queue name

See conversations in PMR 60471,004,000The support we are asking for was in BEVM (monitor program) to include an MQ inquire on the Dispatch Adapter Queue name, to 1) insure it's a Local queue2) If not use the Target queue name of the ALIAS instead....
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

OSA queue displays online CDC and Data reduction.

Customer is requesting an  online display to show the number of items on the OSA input lists.   In z/TPF   all three queues should be displayed , the regular OSA input queue,  a high-priority input queue and the ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce tape queuing due to system logging (RTV/W)

All system logging I/O to tapes (RTV/W) are currently queued to the main I-stream. At the top of every minute, we have observed the main i-stream to be busy that causes tape I/Os to queue up. We would like system logging I/Os to tape be moved to s...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

TOPNC (Open General Tape ) default for the BUF= option default to yes.

The customer is requesting that the TOPNC (Open General Tape ) default for the BUF= option default to yes.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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