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Allow ZOSAE modification without network down

When attempting to change the real IP address or Gateway IP address of a primary OSA definition, the change is rejected if the alternate OSA is active. This requires a network outage to change the IP information on an OSA adapter that is already i...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF CACHE STORAGE should use Ready list completion stacking longest IO first to shortest

With HPF (HIGH PERFORMING FICON) and the CPU LOOP interactions with CACHED SOLID STATE STORAGE --- Generally speaking APPs on activation will (likely) incur a cache miss which is slightly longer than a CACHE HIT. At any given time there can be a n...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Command to reset the stats on MQ queues and channels

A Command is needed reset the stats on queues and channels
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support UTF-EBCDIC in the B2B Parser for JSON and SOAP

Recently UTF-EBCDIC was added functionality for the B2B Parser which has been very helpful. We recently determined that JSON and SOAP was not included in that support. We would like JSON and SOAP to be included in the support included under the B2...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to skip adding data to offline IP trace capture

Today we can specify the IP trace capture size for a specific applname in the Network Services Database. This will override the system level trace size. However the minimum size that can be specified is 8 bytes. This 8 bytes is of data, on top of ...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

More ECB Heap usage information in TPF Data Reduction report

More details needed in the Data reduction performance reports about the usage of ECB Heap Storage:1) The "TPF ECB HEAP REQUEST SIZE REPORT" shows heap request within specific size ranges, the first range from 0-136 bytes accounts for more than 49%...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Add Ability to Display Erroneously Available File Addresses

Currently, there is no function available to create a list of erroneously available addresses for analysis. We would like to see another option for ZRECP DISPLAY similar to the lost address display - like ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON FA ID-PR MAX-10. The d...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Request support for sending multiple responses in chunks

Currently, the maximum response size of the z/TPF HTTP server is limited by the ECB heap storage allowance. This is typically less than 10 MB. Sometimes we need to send large response messages whose sizes exceed 10 MB, but that's not possible unde...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

zsock ipmt enhancement

Customer is requesting the zsock ipmt display to include items like the ip addresses and port numbers for the socket plus to include the actual counts of datagrams instead of how many ‘blocks' this socket may have a datagram in.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) New user exit to avoid SNAP CPSI ECB generation

SNAPC processing CXFRC's a new ECB to CPSI even if the SNAP is being suppressed (ZASER S NODUPL or ZIDOT SUPPRESS etc). A check is done to ensure at least 6% ECBs/frames are available so this processing should not cause an outage, but it can resul...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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