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Prime / Dupe Comparison is needed

One of the last steps in the ODBR procedure is for ODBR to do a prime / dupe comparison of old and new locations. Presumably, the purpose being to ensure integrity of the ODBR data movement and shadow copy process. This assumes there were no discr...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Multiple Release Detection - Less I/O better Reporting

Sabre feels that the current MRD process is I/O intensive and is reactive vs. proactive. The new design should find faults and report for the correction of issues vs. only providing protection. Current process retrieves, reads and files for each R...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

MRD to no longer log release data

MRD processing - We would like to leave MRD ON, however we are asking that a change to the process be implemented that would no longer store/write the releasing diagnostic data into the released file address. On option is to possibly write the log...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Limiting the number of trace files in Performance Analyzer

System: z/TPF Toolkit Performance Analyzer Actor: Program developers using the Toolkit PA Description: It's possible for Performance Analyzer (PA) to run a whole heck of a lot of times if the program(s) being analyzed for a given registration entr...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Track the time an ECB spends on a CPU Loop list

Collect information either by ECB/SWB or by CPU Loop list of the longest time (high watermark) an item that was placed on a CPU Loop list had to wait before being serviced.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow HLASM to run on an x86 Linux server

Currently the HLASM build only works on a Linux system running on a zSeries mainframe, this restriction means we must purchase an IFL and mainframe storage to run just one Linux server, the TPF Toolkit guest.This IFL runs on the same hardware as o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Toolkit Custom Dataset Handler

We have a 'custom dataset handler' plugin for our TPF Toolkit at Amadeus. It reads the program and version in the object file and therefore locates the correct source file in the Folder that is given. It handles a format like below (for program ST...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Provide a timeout option on FIWHC

Provide a new optional keyword on FIWHC to specify a timeout value. This timeout value, if specified, will be used as the maximun wait time on hold queues. If the FIWHC is timed out it will return to the application for handling the condition. Thi...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow for microsecond precision on IP trace

We would like the ability to specify the time down to microseconds, when requesting IP trace output.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 3 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Maintain a waiter count for CORHC/ENQC type events in the event table

The count of waiting ECBs for any given type of event in the event table has to be determined by counting the number of chained SWBs. A count of waiting ECBs should be added to the event table item. This would allow a) fast support for an ENQC enh...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

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