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zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

The CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF works fine except that old pools are not getting released

Hi, When running a CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF database, old pools are not getting released even though the RELEASE option is specified in the CRUISE RESTORE definition table. We prefer to have old pools released following a CRUISE Rest...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Access Traditional TPF Databases with MongoDB API

Enhancement to z/TPF MongoDB API to accept and process mongo functions against non-TPFDF databases by utilizing the tdbi collection descriptor.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

ZUDFM entry do display program/relation...

Our RECOUP procedure includes a "ZRBKD DISP ALL" entry to have a view of our descriptors in the TPF log, but today most of our databases use DBDEF instead of RECOUP descriptor. We would appreciate an entry like "ZUDFM DEF REC" which combines ZUDFM...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

New User Exit for DBCLS

We would like a new user exit case that can be used at DBCLS.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without naming a table

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without having to set up a table for this purpose. Currently every CRUISE function requires a table be created first. The VERIFY could kick off as soon as the entry is made, or it...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE logs should include the list of tape volumes created or used by a parameter table

CRUISE should include a list of capture tape volumes created by a Capture or restored by a parameter table. Currenlty, no log or record is kept of the tape volumes generated during the capture. The information has to be obtained from the console l...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Recoup Phase 5 use of the RTL tape

Recoup phase 5 (ZRECP DUMP entry) writes all lost and erroneously available file pool records to the current real-time logging tape (RTA or RTL). Can the recoup phase 5 process be changed to write to a different tape thats only used for recoup? HP...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Additional ZRECP LONG support to avoid long running behavior when Long Chain Detection thresholds are set too low

Recently during a system outage a Recoup was necessary to validate the integrity of our Database once the system was back up. As part of normal Recoup procedures a ZRECP LONG display entry is made to view logs of DF Files that contain subfiles tha...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF data collection

TPFDF open/close routines in UBC0 collect data for ECB resource monitor, CDC, and TPFDF data collection. These collections run constantly but are rarely used. A switch to control these counters would reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

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