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Enable the transmission of chained certificates through a configuration option

The current SSL processing for InetD transmits the first certificate contained in the designated certificate file. Provide an SSL configuration option for InetD, MQ, High-speed connector, etc. to also transmit any chained certificates contained in...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

z/TPF zMQ support for multiple MQ Connection Names to Multi-Instance (MI) MQ Servers

1. Z/TPF currently generally needs to interact with Multi-Instance (MI) distributed MQ Clusters through a Virtual IP Address (VIP) and Load Balancer or similar abstracting infrastructure. 2. This is because z/TPF does not support multiple MQ Conne...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Data reduction system-wide CPU and mils enhancements

Request the following NEW metrics in data reduction reports to allow for easier tracking of transactional workload once LP workload increases:1) System avg Smoothed Adjusted CPU. Avg calculated for in-use (not fenced) i/streams2) System avg "Trans...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Use XWBs for MPIF and IPC

In previous exchanges with IBM re: XWB usage, it was noted that MPIF and IPC were not changed via PJ45291 to use XWBs. That being the case, we will not be able to reduce frame usage even after the PJ45291 is applied, which somewhat defeats the pur...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ECBRM (ECB Resource Manager) product to include CPU MILS checks for alert or exit processing.

While ECBRM provides fantastic monitoring for many ECB resource use cases, it does not handle MILS usage. There is a desire to sunset local custom/competing resource monitor code in favor of a one-stop approach using ECBRM but we need support for ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPF DNS CACCHE TTL and CASTOUT

Currently the ZCACH and ZDTCP DNS entries are deficient in providing the ability to search for a hostname in IDNSHOSTNAME Cache and display it's associated TTL TOD value. Suggest that the "z" entries be enhanced to provide the TTL expiration time ...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add REST Services for ZIMAG Display support to improve DEVOPS software load automation capabilities

The following IBM enhancements to the REST Services support would allow us to reduce complexity by conslidating both our ZOLDR and ZIMAG commands on REST Services from our DEVOPS implementation server to our z/VM Test z/TPF Systems and simplify by...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add additional REST Services for ZOLDR support to improve DEVOPS software load automation capabilities

The following IBM enhancements to the REST Services support would allow us to reduce complexity between our DEVOPS implementation server and our Producton, Native Test, and z/VM Test z/TPF Systems, simplify by only using one interface for both Tes...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) The toolchain should support creating an OLD/TLD deck containing a list of file system files to delete from TPF

Currently, bldtpf supports being passed a loadfile in order to create a deck containing a list of file sytsem files to load. However, there is no support to be able to create a deck that @@DELETEs a list of file system files. The load deck has to ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Support COMPATBILITY mode(s) to aid compiler migration

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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