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TPF MongoDB Error Logging

Enhance TPF MongoDB logging to log all errors regardless of logging configuration for a particular collection. Errors should be logged in such a way that if several concurrent errors of the same type occur the number published to the logger is lim...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TPFDF Data Events to Trigger in CRAS state

Data Events currently do not trigger below norm state. However, there is currently multiple utilities (similar to some incoming transactional processes) that are executed intentionally on a processor that has been removed from the complex (meaning...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Code Coverage should provide instruction level analysis capabilities

Code Coverage currently supports a source line view of code exection. However, there are multiple instances where it would be helpful to break down execution coverage at the instruction level.
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate need for an IPL after a ZKEYS RESTORE

Allow a zkeys restore command to take affect without requiring an IPL.
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Report ECB heap control table statistics

The initial ECB heap control table (IEHCT) allows each ECB to reference 151 heap nodes, more than this requires the ECB to get system heap to extend its IEHCT.As PJ44907 highlights, this process can cause a bottleneck on the system heap lock and d...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

support service-signal / signal shutdown

Support External Interrupt 2401 (Service-Signal) to shutdown the zTPF system properly automatically. (Like zLinux) Upon receipt of the signal, a message should go to Prime CRAS:"Hypervisor Initiated Shutdown started. Max n seconds remain", then .....
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Not under consideration

Need RSA3072 cypher or higher supported

Infoconnect, our intellegent terminal endpoint, requires SHA3072 or higher.Micro Focus uses the Implementation Guidance for FIPS 140-2 http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/fips140-2/FIPS1402IG.pdf . If you look at Table 2 (Recommended al...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

CCSONP - NO DISPENSE IF MOD PAIR (or Mod) TOO BUSY

It's been years since “ALL” TPF MOD PAIRs (P&D) have produced the same performance and this disparity is getting worse with FICON; due to multiple device activity per channel, hundreds of devices per frame, tens of channels per CPU and tens of...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPFAR needs more flexibility in choosing the Complex Name

TPFAR does not allow for the flexibility of having a Complex Name that is different from the CTKI specified complex name. We should have the option to choose the TPFAR complex name for each TPF system.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ECBRM/ECB Owner Collection - add retention to FS files

When running ZECBM Collect or ZMOWN Collect, the file system is used to hold the .csv results file and in the case of ZMOWN, the config file. This file is pulled off TPF but the online file is left and must be manually cleaned up. For ZECBM Collec...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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