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ZTPLF allow assignment category

This eases the removal of numerous local mods we have regarding management of VTS tape categories. ZTPLF FILL and ZTPLF LOAD commands require a tape category to obtain a tape (in this case scratch tapes). I would these commands to optionally accep...
2 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

Update ZDHST with NVP and ECB Owner Data

As we continue to increase our use of Name-Value Pairs(NVPs) for troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the NVP area has become crucial to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve test and production issues. Most of our dumps ...
10 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Create new DFDL function to release memory when building or parsing while using DFDL APIs

Create function(s) to release memory following the invocation of DFDL APIs. This would alleviate memory leaks when calling the APIs multiple times.
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ Configuration file for SSL to support multiple ciphers

We use a common default MQ SSL Configuration file for all our MQ SSL channels. The IBM limitation is that the MQ configuration file can only have one cipher defined, unlike the HTTP & MONGO SSL Configuration files that support the definition o...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Please add the resolved queue name and MQ reason text to the BEVA0015E message

The use of the term "Transmit Queue" in Online Message BEVA0015E is misleading and derails operations staff troubleshooting. In the MQ Vernacular "Transmit Queue" is a special Queue associated with an MQ Sender Channel. For Error Message BEVA0015E...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to create a consolidated view of Migration Considerations for a user defined batch of APARs

Understanding migration considerations is a critical part of installing APARs. Each APEDIT has a MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS section for IBM to document various APAR impacts including: Functional automation and operation changes, API changes, SIP imp...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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, ...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance Endpoint Descriptor processing and add new ept.xml Elements to change auto-undeploy error processing - adding auto-redeploy.

An endpoint descriptor is automatically undeployed when the number of consecutive errors is greater than the number of connections defined in the ept.xml. Once the system auto-undeploys the endpoint descriptor, it has to be manually re-deployed (v...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

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.
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration