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CCSONP - NO DISPENSE IF MOD PAIR (or Mod) TOO BUSY

It's been years since “ALL” TPF MOD PAIRs (P&D) have produced the same performance and this disparity is getting worse with FICON; due to multiple device activity per channel, hundreds of devices per frame, tens of channels per CPU and tens of...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 72 Not under consideration

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.
almost 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

Reduce CDC interval frequency limit

Currently the CDC minimum collection interval is5 seconds. If this could be reduced ( perhaps to 1 second), more granular data would be available. this data would be more useful for problem diagnosis, as well as provide better tivoli monitoring au...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Recoup short term pool loop detection

We are not using the TLC= parameter and have encountered performance mpacts in three of our zTPF systems, during recoup chain chase, whenshort term pools are chained to each other.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Continuous Data Collection - Include session values for SWISC IMMEDIATE requests in the routed entries per sec.

Include session values for SWISC IMMEDIATE requests in the routed entries per sec.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 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

keyrc protection restoration should be nested

A method is needed to allow nested sa ving and restoring of protect keys. The current keyrc method only works for 1 level.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration