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z/TPF Rest Service Monitoring Dashboard

Problem Statement: How do I know what services are in use on my system and how much system resources they are using?Idea: Dashboard shows a list of services available on the system. For each service it shows: calls per second, success/failures rat...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

An operator can slowly and selectively increase the amount of traffic that uses new code to ensure the code is stable.

Currently, when code is loaded to a production system, 100% of the traffic on the box can use that code. If the loadset is unstable, dumps may occur, system stability may be impacted, service level agreements may be violated, and ultimately end us...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide an option on ZDECB to not "PAGE"

We have a time-initiated entry to display all ECBs running. We would like to have the ZDECB display come out un-paged. We do not want to change our WTOPC_PAGE size in UOP3. What we have done is cloned program cvxs.c and pulled out all of the WTOPC...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support a u201cFIPS140-2 capableu201d openSSL package

REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT z/TPF needs to support a later version of openssl (> 0.9.8j) which is “FIPS compatible” and incorporates the openSSL FIPS140-2 object module.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Remove TMSLC & ATO CPU speed dependency

TPFUG_Req_Number: S03001Contact Originator Id: jack.opgenorth@eds.comAbstract: The application time-out value (ATO) and the TMSLC parameters maxtime and runtime must account for different CPU speeds within the same loosely-coupled complex. This re...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Measuring usage of EVENT processing

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99008Contact Originator Id: Kathy HymerAbstract: Data Collection needs some visibility into Event Table activity.Description: Data Collection should show some visibility into the number of blocks actively processing EVENT reques...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQ04012 MQSeries Process messages from an xmitq on a deactivated processor

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ04012Contact Originator Id: rmansell@visa.comAbstract: Process messages from a transmission queue on a deactivated processor.Description: Messages on local normal queues can be moved from a deactivated processor to an active pr...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Debuggeru2013Add variable length to Variables View

TPFUG_Req_Number: V13135ORIGIN DATE: 4/19/2013REQUIREMENT ABSTRACTHave the Debugger Variables View display the length of each variable. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTIONEnhance the Debugger Variables View to display the length of each variable. SOLUTION CON...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

MQ04009 MQSeries: Remote Administration

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ04009Contact Originator Id: rmansell@visa.comAbstract: Provide support for remote administration of TPF MQ queue managers.Description: Provide support for remote administration of TPF MQ queue managers as defined by the MQ arch...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic IOCP Support

TPFUG_Req_Number: S06003FContact Originator Id: john.chauvenne@worldspan.comAbstract: Add Dynamic IOCP Support to TPF.Description: Dynamic IOCP is critical to running multiple production environments within the same physical processor footprint wi...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration