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z/TPF

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(TPFUG) Create new 'lodic' type of API for TCPIP specific system load/availability

Allow an ECB or time initiated function to check TCPIP resource utilization in order to determine if the ECB has sufficient network resources to run or defer/delay its execution.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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

Make the TSTB size configurable

We would like to have the option to set the number of tape status table (TSTB) slots to a different value at SIP time. Failing that, we would like to see a larger hardcoded TSTB size. The number of TSTB slots is defined in SIP macro sptabs.mac:&am...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 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

Requirement for a Capture/Restore mechanism for MQ messages

The below is a snippet from the IBM MQ documentation for z/OS. We believe this pertains to the utility that we require: However we might require this message/restore capability to operate with the QMGR Active rather than Down. Additionally we woul...
over 1 year 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

Day of week and Day of month support for ZSTIM

The TPF ZSTIM table should support additional functionality like "specific day of the week" or "specific day of the month". This was not that hard to implement and improves the capabilities of TPF's scheduler.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in EXITC processing

As requested by IBM, opening an RFE for what was previously in a PMR.PMR: 68273 004 000 Problem Details . Product or Service: Z/TPF 1.1.0 Component ID: 5748T1501 . Operating System: TPF . Problem title STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in E...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Online load of File system files should be logged by PFS

Since z/TPF software development and version control requires a non-z/TPF platform there is a requirement to maintain on that software development platform a list of programs (and versions) loaded on the z/TPF system.Before TPF41 APAR PJ25880, whi...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support IDOT definitions at CTL/CAT dump level

ZIDOT does not allow you to associate an override with all CTLs dumps, or all Catastrophic dumps. There are times when we want to add the same storage override to any catastrophic dump but not to all CTL or OPR dumps with SYSDUMP =YES.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration