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z/TPF Product Family

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Allow packing of an entire file or parts of a file by ZUDFM PACK ID command.

z/TPFDF provides 2 ways to PACK subfiles: 1)ZUDFM PACK can pack a currently linked subfile only. In order to pack an entire file all contained file addresses needed to be linked via ZUDFM ACC or FAD followed by ZUDFM PACK command. 2)CRUISE provide...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Request to provide expiring MQ message user exit.

Currently, when am MQ message expires, the message is simply deleted. There is no visibility to the expiry event. If a user exit was available, a decision to extend the expiry time could be made or at a minimum, logging the message that was expiri...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase SIP field MXRECID in DATACO macro to allow for greater than 500.

DATACO (SIP macro) allows RECID be the number between 2 and 500. We need to increase the maxrecid in PSS to 1500 but SIP only allows for 500. Can this be increased? We would like to update this value in SIP to match the online value.
over 11 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 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 72 Not under consideration

ZDDMP EXPORT option

SNCF company use TPF DUMP VIEWER on TOOKIT.We use ZDDMP package to capture dumps.In this package, we have IMPORT option but no EXPORT option to send the dumps to another remote server.Is it possible to create this EXPORT option ?Thanks.Best regards.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ACTIVATE THE DUMP VIEWER FROM FILE SAVED ON A REMOTE SERVER

Allow viewing a dump captured by the dump viewer stored on a remote server. It should be possible to select the dump by browsing an index or a list of files from the RSE. It should be also possible to load and activate the TPFdebug perspective wit...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Display File Pool Status

Today to have a status of the pool directories we have the following entries:ZDFPC for the count and the current directory.ZRECP DISPLAY POOL for the directory ranges.For a complete view of all the sections we need a lot of entries and we can not ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

TOS: Blocking Selected Commands from the Command List

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. Another RFE, 33848, was cr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide Usage statistics for TPF Toolkit and Debugger

We would like to keep usage statistics of how many developers are using TPF Toolkit. It would be helpful to have a system log kept that would be updated with the users name when opening Toolkit.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

For TOS, Provide a Recall Commands Expiration Period

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. We would like the command ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

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