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z/TPF Product Family

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Enhance the looping catastrophic monitor

The looping catastrophic monitor aborts restart after recovery log processing in restart. This is before tape restart and IPC restart. Although it's likely that a looping catastrophic is the same dump, aborting before tape restarts means the last ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need option to suppress selected recoup messages

DXC has opened a few PMRs (64053, 91012, and 72575) in the past to resolve the issue with TOS consoles falling back because TOS can't keep up with the high volume of recoup status messages. IBM did provide a software patch to prevent losing the co...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) Cryptography

ECDHE is becoming more common with the systems that connect with z/TPF. We would like to see z/TPF support the newer ciphers before it becomes a security requirement.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

z/TPF Kafka Server: Integrate Kafka Java based Server into z/TPF

Integrate Kafka Java based Server into z/TPF so that it may be used as a z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) as a topic Based Publisher, further, the z/TPF Kafka Server will be able to support subscribers to z/TPF hosted Kafka Topics
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Ability to IPL from one of several LGFs

We're running a production TPF environment which maintains six data base images (not to be confused with: loader images) by means of the HDS Copy Manager. That is: we have six complete sets of RT DASDs containing recent consistent copies of our TP...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Making the times in display consistent or customizable

We have an issue because there are so many components to the time clock. We recently had a user in the Eastern Timezone working with a user in the Pacific Timezone. The tool where the servers are (Central Timezone). One of the displays also had GM...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Communicate with Remote Logstash Instance in a Standard Format

Create a standard format to be pushed by the z/TPF system to a remote Logstash instance in an attempt to limit the need for custom logstash plugins.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add Proxy Use to Enhanced HTTP Client

Update the Enhanced HTTP Client to be able to connect through a proxy via supplied parms for the new HTTP client API. The "old" HTTP client allowed proxy usage.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

SACK support on zTPF

Support TCP Selective Acknowledgement option (SACK)
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Accept commands from service processor

zTPF should accept commands from the service processor. Under zVM, the CP SEND CP <zTPF guest> VINPUT VMSG <zTPF command> causes an error on the zTPF console: HCPPCX6531E The operating system will not accept commands from the service p...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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