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z/TPF

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Need to understand what dump viewer or ECB monitor sessions are running on the system.

There currently is no way for an operator to know what dump viewer or ECB monitor sessions are running on the system. Need an enhancement to the zdbug display and zdbug clear functional messages to display and kill dump viewer sessions. Today, the...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

snap dumps in dump viewer

Customer is requesting for the z /TPFdump viewer to support snap dumps. The current product that they use on TPF4.1 supports this function. What the application programmers like to see is the listc information that can be specified as part of the ...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

message when dumps are not added to dump viewer

Customer is asking for more information either a message or reason code why a dump was not added to the dump database. For example no ECB, R9 not pointing to an ECB etc.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Remove Channel Redrive from ZSTAT ENVIRON

ZSTAT ENVIRON is displaying TPFMODE inconsistently. After some IPL's its YES and some NO.Requesting IBM fix it or remove it. IBM inclined to remove it because TPFMODE not critical for FICON.IBM needs RFE to make that change.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Allow for lower retransmit timer values for zTPF sockets

We are experiencing issues with subsequent retransmissions on dropped packets when fast retransmission is not used and if the packet still does not get delivered on the first retransmission a subsequent retransmission takes 7 seconds to kick off w...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide access to pending CMR3 and RLCH ECB counters

PJ40779 added support to track the number of pending CMR3 and RLCH ECBs per i/stream using counters located in ccnucl. We would like an ENTRY point to be defined for both the CMR3 and RLCH counter areas so that code in other CP csects (user exit c...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Allow a lower RTO minimum value for zTPF client socket connections

For z/TPF client socket connections where the pattern is one message out, one message in (meaning TCP fast retransmit processing would never trigger) and the application level timeout is subsecond, the customer request is to allow a lower RTO mini...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

OPENSOURCE CODE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Opensource code performance improvements are needed in CPP1 to eliminate unnecessary copy-on-write during shared object initialization, plus improve performance of strchr/memchr and string.h.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Support MQ Compression on z/TPF

As more and more data is being shared with remote applications using MQ the need for data compression is increasing. We are requesting that the support for MQ compression as provided in MQ version 6 and 7 be added to the z/TPF MQ server installati...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Tracelog should include resource consumption count analysis

Improved tooling is required to benchmark resource consumption for a specific application path beyond mere clock or processing time. The Performance Analyzer breaks down time spent in various code modules and the number of calls made etc to identi...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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