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    Add sending to MQ Distribution lists support to ZTPF MQ Client

    Z/TPF Applications want the ability to send one copy of an MQ message to multiple Queue Managers and Multiple Queues
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

    RIP Replacement for z/Systems Open Systems Network Interface

    1. Cisco is indicating that it is apparently retiring the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) from its routers/switches, z/TPF needs a replacement such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). 2. The most recent addition of Cisco's most recent...
    almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    FARF6 fixed file for traditional TPF databases

    Most of our databases are zTPFDF. Our database growth is primarily FARF6. Our pools control records are FARF5. With each pool gen we must increase the various pools control records allocations, requiring additional UFT/FTI5 pairs. We are exhaustin...
    almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

    Endpoint Descriptor - New Connection Error Threshold Element

    Allow customer-specific settings to define at what point (counter) errors experienced during the endpoint descriptor processing will force an automated system undeploy of the failing endpoint descriptor.
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    RTMC - Roll up Name Value Pair data into summary groups

    This is a request for logical summary groups to be created for RTMC name value pair data. When there are hundreds of values for a name value pair (e.g MsgType) the default dashboards can be overwhelming with too much granular data. We need a highe...
    almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) lodic_ext needs CHECKONLY equivalent support

    There is no support for c/c++ applications to use LODIC core resource classes that only target specific core block types. As a result we have to either write our own TPFISOC type functions that issue specific LODIC CHECKONLY calls, or use a user L...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Tooling required to keep online and offline image unique file system files in sync and cleanup obsolete/superseded content

    The list of files loaded online on TPF in /sys/tpf_pbfiles the list of files included in an OLD or TLD deck using the current content of tpf.loadfile can be different. We need a way to be able to determine what those differences are, and a way to ...
    almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Update ZDHST with NVP and ECB Owner Data

    As we continue to increase our use of Name-Value Pairs(NVPs) for troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the NVP area has become crucial to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve test and production issues. Most of our dumps ...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

    Use metadata such as DFDL to generate C structures and assembler DSECTs

    With DFDL being both language agnostic and extensible through namespace based attributes and annotations, attributes and/or annotations could be added to indicate the name and optionally, data type, to use when generating such artifacts as well as...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    (TPFUG/Visa) Linux utility tpfdataredux needs completely replace zOS DATAREAD

    RFE 39856 requested data reduction be moved to linux. This RFE was closed when linux tpfdataredux utility was delivered in PJ42460. However, tpfdataredux only supports a few reports so we still need to run zOS DATAREAD and cannot realize the benef...
    over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

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