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z/TPF

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z/TPF TE MIPS Reporting of Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP)

1. Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP) must support measuring, collecting and reporting of z/TPF Transformation Engine (TE) MIPS on a per ECB basis. 2. The Owner Name and NVP Resource Collector writes the information to a Tape 3. Tha...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZSTAT GPU TE MIPS Enhancement

a. Enhance "zstat gpu" to display TE MIPS display by I-Stream. b. Currently an approximated TE MIPS may be calculated from the current display by subtracting GP MIPS from Actual MIPS for the entire LPAR. c. However, the approximation may be dis...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

SCRT IBM Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance SCRT report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions such as: a. Compression i. Compression b. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP c. Middleware Data i. ...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Stack Validation dump CTL-064009 should allow return to application

Stack Validation is a ZSTRC trace option introduced with PUT12 and is very effective in identifying applications that corrupt their own stack variables.However it is also a victim of its own success as the resulting CTL-064009 dump exit the applic...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Make socket identifier available in the MQ client

This is a request to Make the socket identifier available in the MQ client for use by the customer . The customer needs a way to identify what the socket number is in use by which MQ Client
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Include tape ownership details on ZTPLF QUERY ... VSN-... display

Tape ownership in a mutiple cluster GRID linked VTS tape environment is quite an important variable when one of the VTS devices is down or the link between them is not functioning.In this degraded state any tapes owned by the unavailable VTS canno...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SSL_get_fd function

Given an SSL object token, return the fd of the underlying socket or sockets associated with it. Another complimentary function might be SSL_get_token. Here, given a socket fd, return the SSL object token associated with it.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need to see actual addresses of devices that are added/deleted dynamically

CNCE0002I 17.46.27 1 DEVICES ADDED, 0 DEVICES DELETED+CNCE0002I 17.47.07 0 DEVICES ADDED, 1 DEVICES DELETED+ This is the indication you currently get when devices are added/deleted. We would like to see more detail specifically the actual addresse...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

New PPCP option to create dump reports without print headers and characters

TPF dump reports are formatted by STPP as a printable file with special print characters and a header on every page reminding the reader of the dump details and current page number.Most dumps today are too big to justify printing, the normal metho...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Variable record hold wait queue depth

today there is a single wait queue threshold depth for all addresses. We have our value set to 100. we have 10 or so databases for which exceeding the limit of 100 is considered normal. We would like to have a variable limit, that is based on the ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration