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z/TPF Product Family

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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...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Queue Status Display should include Last Put/Get Date & Time, Message Age, and Queue Existence Times

We need the ability to see the LGETDATE, LGETTIME, LPUTDATE, LPUTTIME, MSGAGE and QTIME on the ZMQSC DIS QL-qname STAT command similar to the MQ distributed platform. dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTOR) 12 : dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTO...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under 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...
over 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.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Planned for future release

Support IDOT definitions at CTL/CAT dump level

ZIDOT does not allow you to associate an override with all CTLs dumps, or all Catastrophic dumps. There are times when we want to add the same storage override to any catastrophic dump but not to all CTL or OPR dumps with SYSDUMP =YES.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Additional information of ZSOCK EXCEPTION display

When we try to find out a remote client who is causing an issue such as high number of retransmission or DOO we use ZSOCK EXCEPTION entry but we have to make another entry ZSOCK DISP FORMAT to find out DNS name and Port number for individual socke...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 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...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

Implement preserve-root option on zfile rm

zTPF should request "positive confirmation/are you sure" on certain potentially harmful ZFILE commands.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

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