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Debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications

When debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications if the parent ECB has a EVMWC code and is waiting for the child to post an to the event. If we set the parent ECB running – we will get timeout from EVNWC and the application does not behave c...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

indication number of broken chains for onel exceeded after message recp0410i

After message recp0410i the zrecp onel display does not indicate that more broken chains were found than reported in the onel. Even better would be to report the exact number of broken chains found, even though only the first xxx are actually logg...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support for ZVFAC USAGE FA RECID=0000 entry

Data collections show almost 1% of VFA reads are for record ID x'0000', this is a default bucket for records that don't have a RIAT definition, one of these is ID'00EB' accessed by CVAA from #IBMM4 ordinal #IFMSG (0x4B). This ID was only found by ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

debugger bct trap

The customer is asking for a debugger enhance that would allow then to trap on the first instruction outside of a BCT loop , whether it's due todue to branching out or by falling through the BCT loop
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

ODBR multi processor enhancement for move & validation

Currently ODBR can run in only one processor in a multi processor complex. In our largest complex (PSS) we currently have 5.5 billion records. We would like to reorganize this database in a reasonable number of sessions. That will entail moving an...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Not under consideration

Use ECB Resource Monitor to prevent input list shutdown

Create two new resources that the ECB Resource monitor will follow only when the system is in input list shutdown:.1) CPU milliseconds used since the input list shutdown condition2) Number of VFA accesses since the input list shutdown condition.Wh...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Dump Viewer SQL trace

The customer is requesting that the dump viewer as part of TPF-Toolkitand within z/TPF ensure that SQL trace is collected within z/TPF plus then enable means to view it within TPF Toolkit..
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

CDC needs heap statistics and file pool available counts

We need system heap statistics and file pool available counts in continuous data collection for near term and medium term planning and tuning
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Request to provide expiring MQ message user exit.

Currently, when am MQ message expires, the message is simply deleted. There is no visibility to the expiry event. If a user exit was available, a decision to extend the expiry time could be made or at a minimum, logging the message that was expiri...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase SIP field MXRECID in DATACO macro to allow for greater than 500.

DATACO (SIP macro) allows RECID be the number between 2 and 500. We need to increase the maxrecid in PSS to 1500 but SIP only allows for 500. Can this be increased? We would like to update this value in SIP to match the online value.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration