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z/TPF Product Family

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CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

CDC - Add volume-serial-number to "TAPE" data being reported on by Continuous-Data-Collection.

Please add the volume-serial number to the existing data currently being collected by Continuous-Data-Collection.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Alternative MAXDUMPT control for manual dumps

MAXDUMPT introduced by PJ46025 does not apply to catastrophic dumps but does apply to manual dumps. Taking manual dumps is usually a planned activity and likely the content is required/or possibly required.We would be told if a manual dump was tru...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced eventing API

Customer is looking for z/TPF to be enhanced to support some sort of external interface that allows the current ECB to exceed MAXEVENTS.  Conceptually, the current ECB should be able to call some restricted external API that gives it the privilege...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ZMATC enhancements to modify config files

Introduce a new MODIFY parameter to the ZMATC command such as: ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname VALUE-"value string" ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname REMOVE This command would have the following behaviors: It would modify the s...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

z/TPF Geographically Dispersed Processing for High Availability

Multiple z/TPF Customers; Citibank, SABRE, Marriott, Amex, and TVPT, desire an implementation of z/TPF where at least two geographically dispersed z/TPF Loosely Coupled Computing Cluster (LCCC) Systems may cooperatively process against the same da...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would b...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add etos.exe port information to the TOS Gui

The TOS gui includes fields for ETOS.exe's IP address and host port, but not ETOS.exe's port. Adding this field would display all of the connection information for each gui session.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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