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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

Debugger Callback Issue

Toolkit Debugger callback (TPF test system doing a call back to user desktop running Debugger) is causing conflicts with DXC corporate security policies. I would like to ask IBM to evaluate alternatives in order to avoid costly workarounds for users.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

TOS client and server should support IPv6

The Government is under a mandate to convert all systems and products to IPv6 networking, as IPv6 offers more capability and security. Eventually the government will remove IPv4 traffic thereby eliminating dual-stack requirements.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance MakeTPF for TPFAR builds.

Enhance the MakeTPF process to be more of a automated process for TPFAR builds to included the DB2 precompile, the bind and compile. The process exists for .asm files, support needs to be added for c and c++ ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZDHST disp tot

The command zdhst when displaying the dumps totals from the logs in the file system results in ( UNABLE TO GET HEAP STORAGE FOR ZDHST COMMAND) way too often. The current process is to use the file(s) within the file system across the LC complex to...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TPF CPU Measurement report for our clients

This request is for IBM to provide HP with the ability to provide CPU measurement reporting for TPF systems running for one of our clients. The data will help both provider and customer manage the CPU performance of the TPF applications and system...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Increase max ordinals per chain chase ECB (RANGE Option)

The max interval of ordinals Recoup can chain chase per root ECB is 65535. This is very beneficial when chain chasing wide/shallow structures. Increasing this maximum would allow Recoup runtimes to further benefit from this support.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Leverage Spare bits in FARF6 Addressing to support wider DBs

Currently 32 bits are reserved for a variable size ordinal number in an 8 Byte FARF6 address. With this layout, a FARF6 fixed file face type can have at max 4,294,967,294 ordinals allocated. There are currently spare bits available in the addressi...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Separate counts by OSA for ZTTCP STATs display

On systems with multiple OSAs defined, exception counts (out of order, retransmit, fast retransmit, etc.) are accumulated and displayed together making it difficult to identify or troubleshoot which osa card is having an issue when the counts star...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

maloc enhancements

Improvements need to be make when working with the avl5 list as it deals with fragmentation . Plus additional data collection reports need to be made available to better detect and analysis the issue. In this case there was an application requesti...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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