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CDC - Add volume-serial-number to "TAPE" data being reported on by Continuous-Data-Collection.

Please add the volume-serial number to the existing data currently being collected by Continuous-Data-Collection.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow High-Speed Connector to function in CRAS state or above

RTMC uses the high-speed connector to send data to the off-host Linux listener. Since RTMC is the new way to send performance data, and eventually user data, we do have a need to know what the system is doing in all states.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

ZFILE json display

As JSON config files are being added to the TPF system, it will be beneficial to have a "pretty json" display available for the TPF file system, where files are encoded in ascii. For example - the configs for ZMATC are json and used to modify the ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZMATC enhancements to modify config files

Introduce a new MODIFY parameter to the ZMATC command such as: ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname VALUE-"value string" ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname REMOVE This command would have the following behaviors: It would modify the s...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Support user defined metrics in the NVPC feed for RTMC (TPFUG/Visa)

Only IBM defined metrics are currently supported in the NVPC feed. These metrics are ECB specific. We have a homegrown tool that provides a one-dimensional view of NVPC type data and user defined counters that are sent as part of that homegrown fe...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Prevent loading DFDL files into wrong folder

I opened case TS008515710 for an issue we had where a programmer loaded a DFDL file for a business event into the wrong folder. APAR PJ46741 was opened to address this issue by ignoring files in the loader that were going to the wrong folder. Our ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

RTMC file ID support

Problem statement: Real-time runtime metrics collection support reports finds and file counts. But you can't tell which files are being accessed by a message, which files are being accessed more/less over time on the system or by a specific messag...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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