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Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to not show a echo of ZOLDR DISPLAY entries on the prime cras

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the ZOLDR DISPLAY entries. Could you please suppress the echo on the prime crass for the ZOLDR DISPLAY command ?It's just a display, safe for the system. Thank you for your cooperation. Regards,François Bodelet...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the FCAP0009I output message

Hi,As a complement to the previous RFE number 148274, this enhancement request concerns the FCAP0009I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well: FCAP0009I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the FCAP0008I output message

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the FCAP0008I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well:FCAP0008I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON 0C21 - STARTEDwhere xxxxxx=tape VSN. Thank you for y...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Synchronized Duplicate Dump Table

Duplicate Dump Table may be filed on disk as a CPU-shared record. While the complex is up the dup dump table may be synchronized every minute, so the whole complex in effect has the same dup dump table in core. The table may be filed on disk every...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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...
over 3 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Alternative MAXDUMPT control for manual dumps

MAXDUMPT introduced by PJ46025 does not apply to catastrophic dumps but does apply to manual dumps. Taking manual dumps is usually a planned activity and likely the content is required/or possibly required.We would be told if a manual dump was tru...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

FIND & HOLD (FINHC) and FIND HOLD & WAIT (FIWHC) additional exit points & WAIT

Applications don't always know held records status and need additional guidance. For both FIWHC (and FINHC macros) - add an additional new exit. In the execution of FIND and it's been determined the record is HELD in this processor's hold table - ...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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