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z/TPF Product Family

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Synchronized Duplicate Dump Table

Duplicate Dump Table may be filed on disk as a CPU-shared record. While the complex is up the dup dump table may be synchronized every minute, so the whole complex in effect has the same dup dump table in core. The table may be filed on disk every...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Toolchain support for building code with multiple versions of the compiler

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Support COMPATBILITY mode(s) to aid compiler migration

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZMDES DISPLAY full path display needed

ZMDES DISPLAY doesn't always display the full path to files. Comments from the PMR state that file paths are longer than we can fit in the tabular display. Those get shortened. The end of the path is deemed most important, since the assumption is ...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

zTPF Operating System Education for Licensed Customers - Support Staff Skills Development

Develop an educational track containing training modules for licensed z/TPF users to assist in teaching how to manage and support the z/TPF system in their enterprise. Initial training modules needs to focus on task management basics and would cov...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / All components 0 Planned for future release

ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Day of week and Day of month support for ZSTIM

The TPF ZSTIM table should support additional functionality like "specific day of the week" or "specific day of the month". This was not that hard to implement and improves the capabilities of TPF's scheduler.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Create new 'lodic' type of API for TCPIP specific system load/availability

Allow an ECB or time initiated function to check TCPIP resource utilization in order to determine if the ECB has sufficient network resources to run or defer/delay its execution.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration