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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

Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown

Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown to free up socket related resources quickly and provide a faster way to get out of ILS. Currently ZSOCK INACT has resource checks that stop closing of sockets in a quick manner.We suggest...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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

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.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

z/TPF support for Link Time Optimization

GCC compiler support for Link Time Optimization was announced in October 2014. We would like to utilize that support to improve run-time performance of TPF applications writen in C/C++.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add new WTOPC User Exit to allow special WTOPC SVC monitoring

Require a WTOPC CP cedi.cpy User Exit to monitor WTOPC's issued at high rates. User exit must be called with the WTOPC Reconstructed Plist area completed.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a ways to see both control and location information for RSH buffers

PJ45598 provided support for recoverable system heap. The support allows for a request for recoverable system heap to be serviced from 64 bit system heap if there isn't enough room in the preallocated RSH area. ZDSHP FIND displays information abou...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Track the number of heap requests and releases for AVL1-5 per ECB

Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of ECB heap requests (malloc/calloc/ralloc) for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of releases of ECB heap for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add the new counters to ZMOWN.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Planned for future release

Populate ICOW owner ID with C-O-W program exception address

Currently there is no tool to identify the exact location of a Copy on Write exception only the program name.This suggestion involves a three line update in CPSE to add the COW exception program old PSW address as the low order owner ID of the XMB...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

MQ Trace needs some improvements for better Customer support

During an issue where we needed to provide IBM with MQ traces we had a difficult time getting these. Having to take the RTA and mount on a linux system doesn't work for us, so we had to copy the VTS RTA tape to a VTAPE volume and to use on Linux i...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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