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z/TPF

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Business Events to allow Queue Alias for EVSPEC dispatch queue name

See conversations in PMR 60471,004,000The support we are asking for was in BEVM (monitor program) to include an MQ inquire on the Dispatch Adapter Queue name, to 1) insure it's a Local queue2) If not use the Target queue name of the ALIAS instead....
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

OSA queue displays online CDC and Data reduction.

Customer is requesting an  online display to show the number of items on the OSA input lists.   In z/TPF   all three queues should be displayed , the regular OSA input queue,  a high-priority input queue and the  staging queue.   In addition infor...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce tape queuing due to system logging (RTV/W)

All system logging I/O to tapes (RTV/W) are currently queued to the main I-stream. At the top of every minute, we have observed the main i-stream to be busy that causes tape I/Os to queue up. We would like system logging I/Os to tape be moved to s...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

TOPNC (Open General Tape ) default for the BUF= option default to yes.

The customer is requesting that the TOPNC (Open General Tape ) default for the BUF= option default to yes.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

zdkat (enhanced zdkat display keypionts )

The current zdkat entry to display keypionts should be enhanced to include an all option to display all of the processor keypionts for the complex. For example the display would look like this...14:00:57 000000 ECHO : zdkat kpa all 14:00:58 004000...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Create a trace route function that uses ICMP

Currently there is trace route functionality on z/TPF that uses UDP. We have had difficulty using this since our firewall routers discard the UDP packets and the trace route does not complete properly. We are asking that another trace route utilit...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Simplify tape handling and add equates to tpftape.h

Enhance ZTDEV and update tpftape.h1. Allow for a range of devices when using the ZTDEV ENA, DISA, [Deleted], and UNA options. Example:ZTDEV ENA 340-F B40-FZTDEV DISA 340-F B40-FZTDEV [Deleted] 340-F B40-F GROUP-ALLZTDEV UNA 340-F B40-F GROUP-ALL 2...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Add Queue Manager name to SOAP Descriptor Table

In the Soap Deployment descriptor we can only define a Queue Name where the message should be sent to. We have the need to be able to also define the Queue Manager name in this table. If we can only define the queue name, then we would have to def...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CINFC table display ZDCNF enhancement request

For the zTPF CINFC display function ZDCNF, CPS0 must be rebuilt (CCNUCL) and loaded for ZDCNF to pick up new tags which means we need to load a CP on a TLD for CINFC changes.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Log nodumps to dump data exit

Allow our Online Dump Facility to also log nodump SERRCs to its database.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration