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(TPFUG/Visa) lodic_ext needs CHECKONLY equivalent support

There is no support for c/c++ applications to use LODIC core resource classes that only target specific core block types. As a result we have to either write our own TPFISOC type functions that issue specific LODIC CHECKONLY calls, or use a user L...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance zfile tar to include a compression option

zfile tar should include compression to reduce the output for easier archiving and backup. This should take advantage of IBM's hardware compression.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG - Allow an option for the z/TPF user to change the default load balance behavior for SSL Shared Sessions.

In the current environment the default load balance behavior for SSL shared sessions is to assign an SSL daemon at the time the application CTX (context) is created. All sessions for this application will be assigned to this daemon. This behavior ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Support DFHAP1900 messages at PLT time

The SPI audit message DFHAP1900 is currently not supported until after CICS startup is complete (when the DFHSI1517 Control is being given to CICS message is written). Consequently, SPI commands issued by startup PLT programs (running under the CP...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to XCF buffer processing

Enhance XCF Buffer processing used by DFHIRP for inter-region communication. At present it is possible to exhaust the pool of XCF buffers leading to recursive SVC dumps in DFHIRP causing broad system impact. The ability to specify the size of the ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

TWS product development to support zcentric agents in a Natted environment

Need to be ableto support Zcentric agents in a Natt'd enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Specify relative time for Operation Not Started alerts

The Operation Not Started Alert/Action options were useful enhancements to IBM Z Workload Scheduler V9R5. But they can't be used in all scenarios. We have IzWS applications that run multiple times daily at random times usually event triggered (e.g...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time Should be in XE and 3270
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search. In critical in case we have 500+ elements for DBB

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search in situations where the customer needs to handle 500+ elements for DBB.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Future consideration

More capitalization options in auto formatter

We would like to have some more specific options on capitalization/uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case functions for "user defined words" in the Cobol Editors autoformatter: A) An option only to rework user defined words in Procedure Divison matching t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration