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Detecting unusable OSAs

he z/TPF OSA-Express support has a concept of virtual IP addresses which allows you to swing IP addresses from one physical OSA card to another.      To communicate externally, OSA's have defined to them first hop gateway IP addresses.    All outb...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

When a task/process fails for ZCPYS we would like a secondary output that shows the first child error to be included with the REST respnose

when a process fails for a ZCPYS we get a generic IWNR1027E error message that states <task> has completed with one or more errors. This doesnt tell the host operator any information, usually resulting in tickets being generated and calls be...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

add DFDL the structure to structure support to openAPI

currently only one schema can be defined for request/response in openAPI swagger. This does not allow you to use the DFDL structure to structure schemas. DFDL structure-to-structure schemas have proven to be very good at reducing the amount of mai...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

RTMC - SSL Connections for Kafka

Need the ability to easily configure tpfrtmc and the RTMC analyzer to connect to kafka with SSL. Example of relevant settings below. May not be a complete list. security.protocol=ssl.keystore.location=ssl.keystore.password=ssl.key.password= ssl.tr...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Send DS8K health status info to the TPF console

To help improve the operator’s awareness of conditions within the DS8K DASD control unit on production systems, we would like to take the health information that the DS8K is already collecting and send it to the TPF console.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enhanced JAM recycle after activation number change

Currently any activation number change requires to recycle the JAMs. Without JAM recycle loadset cannot be accepted and deleted. In case of multiple loadset load (even these which are not related to JAM's work) it is required to either multiple re...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support to flag reads from low core

TPF provides protect key and low core protection against e-type code running in key 1 problem state writing to low core. However, there is no support to help identify when low core is being READ from erroneously, e.g. due to no base register havin...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Dynamic Override of Remote IPs and Ports for Test Environments

Support the online modification of some HSC descriptor fields via functional command Increase Max sockets Modify the destination, IP or port number via online command. ZCONN ALT G-HSCGRP1 E-HSCEPT1 maxsock-xx dest-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(yyyy)
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow Z/tpf High speed connector to Round Robin across all active sockets within a endpoint in a send without resp design.

When using TPF High speed connector in a send and forget manner to 1 primary endpoint with multiple defined activity sockets.The HSC will mostly only use the 1st socket, unless 2 ecbs do a send at the same time or if the 1st socket send buffer fil...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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