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z/TPF Product Family

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Alternative MAXDUMPT control for manual dumps

MAXDUMPT introduced by PJ46025 does not apply to catastrophic dumps but does apply to manual dumps. Taking manual dumps is usually a planned activity and likely the content is required/or possibly required.We would be told if a manual dump was tru...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Requirement for a Capture/Restore mechanism for MQ messages

The below is a snippet from the IBM MQ documentation for z/OS. We believe this pertains to the utility that we require: However we might require this message/restore capability to operate with the QMGR Active rather than Down. Additionally we woul...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in EXITC processing

As requested by IBM, opening an RFE for what was previously in a PMR.PMR: 68273 004 000 Problem Details . Product or Service: Z/TPF 1.1.0 Component ID: 5748T1501 . Operating System: TPF . Problem title STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in E...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Online load of File system files should be logged by PFS

Since z/TPF software development and version control requires a non-z/TPF platform there is a requirement to maintain on that software development platform a list of programs (and versions) loaded on the z/TPF system.Before TPF41 APAR PJ25880, whi...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would b...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Queue Status Display should include Last Put/Get Date & Time, Message Age, and Queue Existence Times

We need the ability to see the LGETDATE, LGETTIME, LPUTDATE, LPUTTIME, MSGAGE and QTIME on the ZMQSC DIS QL-qname STAT command similar to the MQ distributed platform. dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTOR) 12 : dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTO...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Support IDOT definitions at CTL/CAT dump level

ZIDOT does not allow you to associate an override with all CTLs dumps, or all Catastrophic dumps. There are times when we want to add the same storage override to any catastrophic dump but not to all CTL or OPR dumps with SYSDUMP =YES.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

A mechanism should be given to prevent the system from being paused (via pausc) for more than a couple of minutes

The pausc macro is used to stop all activity on other i-streams so critical fields can be updated. It is mean to be only done for a really short time. If the system does not get unpaused for some reason, Input list shutdown will occur and the and ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enable zTPF to run without tapes

Allow TPF to run if no tape drives are available. If no tape drives are operational all the operator has to do is enter a command to disable tape operations which forces tpf to purge all tape queues and throw away all tape writes but allow the sys...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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