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Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Prevent loading DFDL files into wrong folder

I opened case TS008515710 for an issue we had where a programmer loaded a DFDL file for a business event into the wrong folder. APAR PJ46741 was opened to address this issue by ignoring files in the loader that were going to the wrong folder. Our ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Require Domain Specific DNS server support

The current DNS support defines a primary/secondary DNS server for name resolution. We have a requirement to be able to user our default DNS servers, but for specific Domain Names we need to access our customers DNS server for name resolution. The...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

software profiler weighted message

The request is for the software profiler to use weighted message rate like Data reduction is using. In addition it would be useful to show what traces are enabled as part of the run.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Desire to have LONG RUNNING ECBS as a part of CDC

We have a desire to include LONG RUNNING ECBS, as currently in the standard IBM Data Collection. In the data collection, the output looks as follows (where the value of long running ECBS is 919.000): SYSTEM SUMMARY REPORT 19 MAR 14:00:02 SYSTEM PA...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Update 3270 interrupt handling (CCP4) to close security loopholes

When using a 3270 subchannel that had previously been used with another application, and that session had not been logged-off (LOGO), the new session will still be logged-on to that application. When CCP4 (in CLOA) detects an unsolicited device en...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Provide user exit in 3270 COMM SOURCE to handle LOGI security

Provide a user exit in the 3270 comm source package that will enter a customer-written program to display a sign-on screen for a user to enter credentials. The user exit will be responsible to display a secure 3270 welcome screen and to perform au...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Need additional measurements for short-term pools on time between dispense and return

Need additional measurements for short-term pools on time between dispense and return in order to configure directory set size and to understand recycle time. It is suggested to provide this information by pool section and by record ID by pool type.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) ZRTMC collected data needs to include RHT and event table data

ZRTMC deliverables include NVPC data and CDC data. However, this data provides no insight into issues that may be due to processing contention. Primary sources of ECB contention are:1) the RHT 2) CORHC/ENCQC 3) hopefully less likely, but the addit...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Restart a failed shared SSL daemon process automatically?

Using the description from the CASE.jvfarmer (IBM)Jan 18, 2022, 08:42We have been working on diagnostic improvements to shared SSL, and have gotten some corruption detection in place, but we don't believe adding this code formally is the correct a...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration