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about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 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...
about 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...
about 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

STIM items scheduled on same minute boundary

after some research we found this was because of a peak in activityscheduled from the STIM table.This bottleneck is caused by the STIM table scheduling too many itemson the same minute boundary, this is most noticable after a long outagewhen TPF i...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 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

MQ Receive user exit

The customer typically uses the CDCSVRCHL SVRCONN channel to monitor system usage using the Tivoli CDC client but realize that any workstation with MQ client software installed can connect to CDCSVRCHL and MQGET/MQPUT to any queue.  Is there a pre...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ztpld clear out the KSA (keypiont staging area)

Customer is requesting that ztpld program load process program (cil0) always clear out the KSA (keypoint staging area). The reason for the change is that there was an old keypoint in the keypoint staging area when keypoints were being loaded .  On...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information.

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information . Customer is asking for an enhancement request to ZDDSI to include the PCHID information that is associate with the CHIPID for the associated device. This information would be very useful in ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

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