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Support IDOT definitions at CTL/CAT dump level

ZIDOT does not allow you to associate an override with all CTLs dumps, or all Catastrophic dumps. There are times when we want to add the same storage override to any catastrophic dump but not to all CTL or OPR dumps with SYSDUMP =YES.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Additional information of ZSOCK EXCEPTION display

When we try to find out a remote client who is causing an issue such as high number of retransmission or DOO we use ZSOCK EXCEPTION entry but we have to make another entry ZSOCK DISP FORMAT to find out DNS name and Port number for individual socke...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

A mechanism should be given to prevent the system from being paused (via pausc) for more than a couple of minutes

The pausc macro is used to stop all activity on other i-streams so critical fields can be updated. It is mean to be only done for a really short time. If the system does not get unpaused for some reason, Input list shutdown will occur and the and ...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enable zTPF to run without tapes

Allow TPF to run if no tape drives are available. If no tape drives are operational all the operator has to do is enter a command to disable tape operations which forces tpf to purge all tape queues and throw away all tape writes but allow the sys...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Rearrange CPS0 to make better use of EDAT-1

The CP is a high performance area and 60-70% of CPU processing takes place within it. The CP in zTPF is 2.5MB, the first MB is addressed via DAT but the remaining 1.5MB is addressed by EDAT-1. Therefore as a suggestion would it make sense to move ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

software profiler weighted message

The request is for the software profiler to use weighted message rate like Data reduction is using. In addition it would be useful to show what traces are enabled as part of the run.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Basic Authentication support in zTPF HTTP Server

There is currently no system level code (such as CHT1/2/3) support for this standard "Authorization" HTTP header and zTPF shops have to create their own way for this support. Even though this header is a standard feature in the HTTP server, adopti...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table

Request is to update ZDTCP PING processing to use the local routing table when the LOCAL parameter is not supplied (replacing current process of using the default local IP address).
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZPTCH improvements

Customer is asking for improvements to zpatch to prevent system issue;The issue appears to be the possibility of inadvertently applying core updates after filing the 20 allowed ZPTCH patch deck slots. The core updates happen because the process al...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration