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z/TPF Product Family

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z/TPF SNAP dumps - option to SERRC

We propose adding code to IBM segments that contain SNAP dump code to have an option to take a SERRC instead. The segment can interrogate a new Format-2 Global. If the IBM segment name is found in the global, take a SERRC instead of a SNAP dump. I...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Display Erroneously Available File Addresses

Currently, there is no function available to create a list of erroneously available addresses for analysis. We would like to see another option for ZRECP DISPLAY similar to the lost address display - like ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON FA ID-PR MAX-10. The d...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

zsock ipmt enhancement

Customer is requesting the zsock ipmt display to include items like the ip addresses and port numbers for the socket plus to include the actual counts of datagrams instead of how many ‘blocks' this socket may have a datagram in.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) New user exit to avoid SNAP CPSI ECB generation

SNAPC processing CXFRC's a new ECB to CPSI even if the SNAP is being suppressed (ZASER S NODUPL or ZIDOT SUPPRESS etc). A check is done to ensure at least 6% ECBs/frames are available so this processing should not cause an outage, but it can resul...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown

Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown to free up socket related resources quickly and provide a faster way to get out of ILS. Currently ZSOCK INACT has resource checks that stop closing of sockets in a quick manner.We suggest...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a ways to see both control and location information for RSH buffers

PJ45598 provided support for recoverable system heap. The support allows for a request for recoverable system heap to be serviced from 64 bit system heap if there isn't enough room in the preallocated RSH area. ZDSHP FIND displays information abou...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Populate ICOW owner ID with C-O-W program exception address

Currently there is no tool to identify the exact location of a Copy on Write exception only the program name.This suggestion involves a three line update in CPSE to add the COW exception program old PSW address as the low order owner ID of the XMB...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

MQ Series - add support for the WebSphere MQ v.6 monitoring functions for Queues and Channels.

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ07001FContact Originator Id: bryan.alison@worldspan.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for providing statistical information related to real-time queue and channel usage, in conjunction with the local Queu...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Implement gRPC / Protocol Buffers for native support (C/C++ interface) in zTPF

We would like to make use of a streaming network protocol such as gRPC / Protocol Buffers. Currently we running into to issues with blocking protocols such as HTTP/S. We are looking at using gRPC under Java on zTPF but concerned with the performan...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration