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    Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

    OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

    As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    INGLKUP and DISPTREE to work through HasMember APGs

    Please update the DISPTREE and INGLKUP REQ=ANALYSE to work through APG HasMember relationships. Neither indicate relationships that are via HasMember groups.
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

    Have INGREQ CANCEL complete when Resource returns to SATISFACTORY state

    Currently if an APG has the status AVAILABLE SOFTDOWN where all of its APLs within it are SOFTDOWN and then a STOP vote is put on the APG. When there is an INGREQ CANCEL to the APG Stop Vote, this will give a bad return code, even though the APG i...
    8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

    Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    INGLIST COMMAND PROVIDE THE ABILITY TO FILTER ON SUSPENDED RESOURCES

    You cannot use INGLIST command to filter on suspended resources. You have to use INGVOTE REQ=SUSPEND.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Update PIPE in ACFREP (aka AOFRSRPY) to expose messages IEE600I in order to allow further AT processes to trap IEE600I

    We would like to suggest an enhancement for the way ACFREP (AOFRSRPY) replies to WTORs. Currently, the PIPE named ISSUECMD executes the reply command via CORRCMD and then locates the message IEE600I and save to a stem named resp. This works gracef...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

    We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Proposal for enhanced z/TPF DNS Client behavior and alerting

    The recent exchange between the IBM z/TPF Lab and DXC in the Support Case TS016560816 has suggested that IBM would be open to considering enhancements to the behavior and/or alerting for the DNS client processing associated with gethostbyname and ...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

    Have the ability to display the ZSTIM table without resetting the TIMTUD flag.

    During a recent change which involved the cancellation of an item in the ZSTIM table (from the PRC console) the 'wrong' item was removed. This occurred because a colleague made a ZSTIM D entry from another terminal while monitoring the progress of...
    9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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