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Add more information to ZSSLD DIS command for better diagnostics

Please add to the existing display information regarding the allocation of CTXes to each daemon, what daemons are supporting what ports, and a high-water mark for CTXes on each daemon. It also might be useful to display the timestamp of the oldest...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SSL Daemon - Dynamically refresh CRL/Certs when they are changed

We have a security requirement to update the CRL daily. We have a process that recycles all of the INETD services in order to bring in the latest CRL for all new connections. We have recently ran into heap issues on the SSL Daemons that forced us ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add option to disable SLOWSTART in HSC config

If HSC is used for sending multiple packet messages, network latency is high, and application timeout is set to a low value, SLOWSTART can cause the timeout value to be reached due to packet transmission halted while awaiting TCP ACK. This became ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Include CRL pem files as part of the ZPUBK REHASH process

Early in the design of our support of SSL, we decided to combine the CA certificates into one file and use the CAFILE config parameter. We went from 3 CA certificates to 22 CA certificates, also daily we create a new CA file that is combined with ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 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...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Additional information of ZSOCK EXCEPTION display

When we try to find out a remote client who is causing an issue such as high number of retransmission or DOO we use ZSOCK EXCEPTION entry but we have to make another entry ZSOCK DISP FORMAT to find out DNS name and Port number for individual socke...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Implement preserve-root option on zfile rm

zTPF should request "positive confirmation/are you sure" on certain potentially harmful ZFILE commands.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

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