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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

(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) Toolchain support for building code with multiple versions of the compiler

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 1 Not under 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

Dignus 2.20 Compiler Support

Add support for the Dignus 2.1 Compiler. It contains a number of improvements and features that we are keen to leverage including improved hardware support and optimizations that we provided to the Dignus team.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Create new 'lodic' type of API for TCPIP specific system load/availability

Allow an ECB or time initiated function to check TCPIP resource utilization in order to determine if the ECB has sufficient network resources to run or defer/delay its execution.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add F1MB statistics to ZDECB addr for specific ECB address

F1MB statistics are missing from the ZDECB display of an ECB address. These stats are available in ZDECB STATS. For example: >zdecb stats sort-f1mb DECB0014I 18.53.39 DISPLAY ECB SUMMARY ECB ADDR SSU IS PGM TRC MIN SC MILS F4K F1MB FIND FIL...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration