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ZDDMP EXPORT option

SNCF company use TPF DUMP VIEWER on TOOKIT.We use ZDDMP package to capture dumps.In this package, we have IMPORT option but no EXPORT option to send the dumps to another remote server.Is it possible to create this EXPORT option ?Thanks.Best regards.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Display File Pool Status

Today to have a status of the pool directories we have the following entries:ZDFPC for the count and the current directory.ZRECP DISPLAY POOL for the directory ranges.For a complete view of all the sections we need a lot of entries and we can not ...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Trigger Interval Parameter for zTPF MQ Manager

Provide the ability to define a Trigger Interval (TRIGINT) for the IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager in z/TPF. This feature allows z/TPF to alleviate problems related to trigger type FIRST which is currently only activated when the queue starts out e...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Add tape VSN in TSIO message

The customer has automation in place to sent informational message to individuals when a tape CC3 I/O type of error occurs. It would be helpful if that message included the tape VSN that was mounted on the drive to be included in themessage prefix...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Allow buffered tape writes to be queued in multiple 32K tape buffers

Our system has several applications that use TOUTC to write data to a buffered tape, and must therefore issue a WAITC. Normally this is not an issue as the data is simply moved from the application core to the tape buffer, however if the tape driv...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce maximum CRPA C-O-W storage requirements

On several occasions we have increased our CRPA C-O-W area to avoid the 80% full warning issued by CNG0 SNAPC-064080, however increasing this limit results ina reduction in VFA size due to the extra CRPA page and segment table that are allocated.N...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Display list of programs in 31 or 64 bit COW areas

Currently there is no display to show a list of programs allocated in each C-O-W CRPA program area. This would be useful to identify which programs might be considered for migration to the normal C-O-W area.This information is available in the IPA...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Move TYPE=DATA programs from C-O-W to normal CRPA program area

Currently all TYPE=DATA programs are allocated by default in the C-O-W program area but the majority are never updated.Better to allocate these programs in the normal CRPA area which offers some protection against core corruption and does not attr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase the number of format-1 SYNCC globals

Our system now uses 254 SYNCC global fields. I believe the maximum is 255. Will you be able to support greater than 255 format-1 SYNCC globalfields and/or records? Format-2 global is avialble in z/TPF but Applications keeps asking for more format-...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

VFA lost after some ZAPAT add entries

VFA lost during Softipl afer a couple of ZAPAT add entries. We analyzedthat the system limits 100 ZAPAT ADD entries as defined in ipat.mak andthe system prevents to add more. During investigation we found severalerrors in handling these spare entr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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