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z/TPF

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ZVFAC USAGE to show files and finds rather than simply accesses

The ZVFAC USAGE display gives total accesses which includes both find and file activity, for more clarity the display could be enhanced to show separate totals for file and find type accesses.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 8 Not under consideration

VFA performance suggestion

Whilst testing an application that issues thousands of FILECs on a specific VFA Immediate file address we saw the ZVFAC USAGE display never showed more than one access.This is because VFA uses a new buffer if the current one has the write active b...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Internet Daemon Configuration File (IDCF) - Allow the ability to specify on which I-stream an Internet Server will start

When altering or adding an Internet server appication entry to the IDCF, allow the ability to specify on which I-stream that server will start.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swaggers and zDFDL after loading zEV and zREST APARs

1. After loading of certain APARS associated with z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) and z/TPF REST API (zREST) processing it is required that Swaggers and zDFDL be reloaded using the ZOLDR. 2. Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swagger...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQClient Using z/TPF Priority Socket

Z/TPF has the capability to use priority TCP/IP sockets to select socket consumers. An MQ Client consumer external to a Provider z/TPF Systems needs the ability to fetch MQ messages from a local z/TPF MQ Queue while it's input list is in shut down...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZMDES Clean Up after zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or zOLDR Delete

1. ZMDES Manage Deployment Descriptors Process requires multi-CPU/LPAR clean up after a zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or Delete. The other LPARS in the z/TPF Loosely Coupled Complex (LCC) generally do not have their tables updated until an IPL. This...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Is a defect

OSA polling when nearing the depletion of IPMT blocks

Enhancement to shutdown OSA polling when nearing the depletion of IPMT blocks. This occurs today when polling during dump processing, but is not done in the mainline polling path. To prevent complete depletion of IPMTs by OSA polling and possible ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

keyrc protection restoration should be nested

A method is needed to allow nested sa ving and restoring of protect keys. The current keyrc method only works for 1 level.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

STIM items scheduled on same minute boundary

after some research we found this was because of a peak in activityscheduled from the STIM table.This bottleneck is caused by the STIM table scheduling too many itemson the same minute boundary, this is most noticable after a long outagewhen TPF i...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

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