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A mechanism should be given to prevent the system from being paused (via pausc) for more than a couple of minutes

The pausc macro is used to stop all activity on other i-streams so critical fields can be updated. It is mean to be only done for a really short time. If the system does not get unpaused for some reason, Input list shutdown will occur and the and ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Prevent loading DFDL files into wrong folder

I opened case TS008515710 for an issue we had where a programmer loaded a DFDL file for a business event into the wrong folder. APAR PJ46741 was opened to address this issue by ignoring files in the loader that were going to the wrong folder. Our ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Require Domain Specific DNS server support

The current DNS support defines a primary/secondary DNS server for name resolution. We have a requirement to be able to user our default DNS servers, but for specific Domain Names we need to access our customers DNS server for name resolution. The...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enable zTPF to run without tapes

Allow TPF to run if no tape drives are available. If no tape drives are operational all the operator has to do is enter a command to disable tape operations which forces tpf to purge all tape queues and throw away all tape writes but allow the sys...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Update 3270 interrupt handling (CCP4) to close security loopholes

When using a 3270 subchannel that had previously been used with another application, and that session had not been logged-off (LOGO), the new session will still be logged-on to that application. When CCP4 (in CLOA) detects an unsolicited device en...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Provide user exit in 3270 COMM SOURCE to handle LOGI security

Provide a user exit in the 3270 comm source package that will enter a customer-written program to display a sign-on screen for a user to enter credentials. The user exit will be responsible to display a secure 3270 welcome screen and to perform au...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Rearrange CPS0 to make better use of EDAT-1

The CP is a high performance area and 60-70% of CPU processing takes place within it. The CP in zTPF is 2.5MB, the first MB is addressed via DAT but the remaining 1.5MB is addressed by EDAT-1. Therefore as a suggestion would it make sense to move ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Desire to have LONG RUNNING ECBS as a part of CDC

We have a desire to include LONG RUNNING ECBS, as currently in the standard IBM Data Collection. In the data collection, the output looks as follows (where the value of long running ECBS is 919.000): SYSTEM SUMMARY REPORT 19 MAR 14:00:02 SYSTEM PA...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

software profiler weighted message

The request is for the software profiler to use weighted message rate like Data reduction is using. In addition it would be useful to show what traces are enabled as part of the run.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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