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restart status for diagnostic purposes.

The request is to add add status into the restart process for betterdiagnostic purposes, it order to know which program was called if restart dies or if it is taking a long time to complete.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Additional diagnostic info to determine path/version of tpftools and linux bin being used (for example offldr inside loadtpf)

PJ43352 delivered a new version of offldr so when staging code that was to load with this new version we set up our paths such that we would pick up the new version. We ran into a problem where some users were executing the new version of offldr a...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Publish APAR text file in XML

I have written an APAR management tool implemented as a plugin in the TPF Toolkit. I have coded a scan to extract information from the PJnnnnn.txt file. I would be able to enhance the automation if the APAR text were also available in an XML file.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ZINET ADD, ALT and DEL allow a procid. Display doesn't.

Request to enhance ZINET Display for a specific processor. Currently today ZINET function allows a procid to be specified on all but thedisplay request. Adding listeners for new CPUs we are bringing upbut I can't verify the add worked correctly wi...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Move WGTA tables above the 2g Bar

Request is to move the WGTA tables above the 2g bar in order to free up valuable space below the BAR Current allocation is 1.4 million entries today .
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Data Reduction report to show maximum list sizes per I-stream & time

Currently Data reduction shows a maximum value for Cross, Ready, Input and Defer lists based on the sum of each I-streams maximum value during the Data Collection period.This enhancement request is for Data reduction to also report the maximum val...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZILGF BACKUP needs a CLEAR option to delete old keypoint versions

A LGF IPL gives the option to save loaded keypoints with the ZILGF BACKUP command, but Keypoints not included in the LGF load retain their older versions in the LGF backup area and this can cause problems when restoring them with: zimag keypt rest...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

zTPF Dupe Record Read Queuing

Problem title READ Dupe Queuing needs change to support major DASD installation of IBM Storage or 3rd party . Software problem with existing DUPE READ QUEUING... z/TPF is operating as if READS are still slow - in modern storage is fasterfaster tha...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Predictable TCP ISN(Initial Sequence Number) vulnerability problem

This server uses TCP/IP implementation that repects the "64K rule" or a "time dependent rule" for generating TCP sequence numbers. Unauthorizd users can predict sequence numbers when hosts are cummnicating, and connect to your servers from any sou...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Limit the expiry time of MQ messages

"Limiting the expiry time of messages:Enable limiting the expiry time of any message put to a queue or topic by using the CAPEXPRY attribute specified in the CUSTOM attribute on the queue or topic."
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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