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z/TPF Product Family

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Need better diagnostics when running out of IPMT's

We seem to be seeing more and more SNAP 7805 dumps where we are running out of IPMT's. We would like to see more diagnostic information when we get this which could include the top 10 users of IPMT's in the system at the time of the dump and the n...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Automatically issue ZUDFM DEF INIT when activating or deactivating a DBDEF

When changes are made to a DBDEF, a ZUDFM DEF INIT must be done to rebuild the DBDEF index table. When a procedural mistake is made and the ZUDFM DEF INIT is not issued, a variety of error conditions can occur. This could be prevented if a ZUDFM D...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

z/TPF Rest Service Monitoring Dashboard

Problem Statement: How do I know what services are in use on my system and how much system resources they are using?Idea: Dashboard shows a list of services available on the system. For each service it shows: calls per second, success/failures rat...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

An operator can slowly and selectively increase the amount of traffic that uses new code to ensure the code is stable.

Currently, when code is loaded to a production system, 100% of the traffic on the box can use that code. If the loadset is unstable, dumps may occur, system stability may be impacted, service level agreements may be violated, and ultimately end us...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration