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    Add Heap Memory High Watermarks to default RTMC Dashboards for JVMs

    We would like to see the 64-bit and 31-bit high water marks for the heap regions used by JVMs limited by MAXXMES, MAXXMAP, and EMPS. This would be incredibly helpful to monitor Java for any problem troubleshooting, and give us an easier way to fin...
    almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) - Provide information about loadset resource consumption to warn of possible problems managing very large loadsets

    If a loadset contains a very large number of programs, or programs that are very large, activation can result in unexpectedly large increases in CRPA consumption, and loadset accept processing can temporarily consume an unexpectedly large number o...
    almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

    In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Add sort options to the ZDTAP entry

    With options to sort on UNIT or Volume, it is easier to see what tapes or units are mounted.At this moment the ZDTAP without option just displays all units and tapes. ZDTAP [SORT [Volume]] would make live much easier for operators to see what is g...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 12 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Enhance Data collection parameters

    Currently, there is only a maximum skip factor of 9999 and it applies to both the Program and File collector. We would like to have separate skip factors for the Program / File collector and to increase the skip value beyond 9999. This allows the ...
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Travelport) Create INODE version upgrade tool.

    Currently for z/TPF TFS INODEs there is no available functionality to upgrade an INODE to the most current INODE version. In some systems, directories/files have been present since the initialization of the TPF TFS and are still at INODE version ‘...
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

    ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

    Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Upgrade Kafka Client

    The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Support for a simpler programming language (For example "SWIFT")

    Assembler, C and C++ are difficult to learn and use and it would be beneficial to have a simpler programming language for application developers.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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