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z/TPF Product Family

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Enhance MakeTPF for TPFAR builds.

Enhance the MakeTPF process to be more of a automated process for TPFAR builds to included the DB2 precompile, the bind and compile. The process exists for .asm files, support needs to be added for c and c++ ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZDHST disp tot

The command zdhst when displaying the dumps totals from the logs in the file system results in ( UNABLE TO GET HEAP STORAGE FOR ZDHST COMMAND) way too often. The current process is to use the file(s) within the file system across the LC complex to...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CDC UNABLE TO ALLOCATE STORAGE

There are several problems with this message. 1.) The documentation says that the user needs to take no action (when action is really needed).2.) When we're trying to set a global that has already been set, the user may or may not know that it has...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

NEED TCP/IP SSU Counts made available

It is currently understood that high speed and low speed messages are going away. However, the TCP/IP messages are of extreme value for us and our ability to assist in the troubleshooting for when problems occur. When a problem currently happens, ...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TPF CPU Measurement report for our clients

This request is for IBM to provide HP with the ability to provide CPU measurement reporting for TPF systems running for one of our clients. The data will help both provider and customer manage the CPU performance of the TPF applications and system...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

BYPASS for ZFCTB LOAD

There are times we may want to bypass the FCTB validation when using Norm State FCTB Load. It would be beneficial if we could load a FCTB in Norm when wanting to delete a pool type, for example.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Display of all items in the CRPA area

Add a display of all items in the CRPA areas.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Separate counts by OSA for ZTTCP STATs display

On systems with multiple OSAs defined, exception counts (out of order, retransmit, fast retransmit, etc.) are accumulated and displayed together making it difficult to identify or troubleshoot which osa card is having an issue when the counts star...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

maloc enhancements

Improvements need to be make when working with the avl5 list as it deals with fragmentation . Plus additional data collection reports need to be made available to better detect and analysis the issue. In this case there was an application requesti...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Data collection should support user message counters and a customizable weighted message calculation

• A vanilla object code version of offline DATAREAD should be shipped so that customers with no local mods do not have to compile the offline code. If customers can use the vanilla shipped DATAREAD they would not need a PL/1 compiler and could sav...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 4 Not under consideration