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z/TPF Product Family

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Trace log summary

provide a summary of the trace log results to include function, macro, i/o etc counts and execution times.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Additional use of Utilization versus the cap

As described in the PMR we are using a capped LPAR and need a couple of changes.Firstly customer would like ZSTAT U to include the utilization versus the cap, much like its being reported as a single percentage in data reduction and CDC.Secondly c...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Ctl-10 to opr dumps

The request is to change ctl-10 to opr dumps. We take a number of ctl-10 dumps across our complexes. On some occasions we've seen input list shutdown hit due to the stopping of 1 I-stream for 250 ms and then stopping all I-streams to take the dump...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide a timeout mechanism for MQ channel negotiation

Recently a receiver channel was attempting to start, but it appears the remote MQ Manager wasn't behaving properly. This caused the channel to be locked, and the recovery log to fill. We would like to have a timeout parameter available on the Chan...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

High speed connector expand zconn information details

High speed connector more details on zconn display.Should include detail information of remote system of the endpoint. Should include Network name, Ip address, port, TLS status, description, heartbeat interval, Timeout value as well as current soc...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support formatting of floats and doubles within an array while using DFDL / REST Support

We can format floats and doubles as decimals using a DFDL user exit function; however, an array of floats or doubles is not possible since there is no way to access these elements in an array for formatting. The XPath node reference within a DFDL ...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Better ZMDES DISplay Wildcard Support

Problem Statement: ZMDES DISplay only supports wildcards for file names in the form of *.extension. This can return an unwieldly list of filenames.Idea: Add ZMDES DISplay support for wildcards for file names such as ABC*.extension, *ABC.extension,...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

MQ add support for Queue Manager, Alias, Local and Remote queue descriptions.

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ06001SContact Originator Id: jon.mccombs@worldspan.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for Queue Manager, Alias, Local, and Remote queue descriptions.Description: MQ series on distributed platforms supports...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ZLIB support of version 1.2.8. in z/TPF

Sabre, a HP customer/partner wants to exploit the use of ZLIB in z/TPF environment. We (HP and IBM) had a discussion of ZLIB in z/TPF. This is a follow-up RFE. HP wants to request IBM to support ZLIB version 1.2.8 in z/TPF and we would like to kno...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Delivered

Enhance ZIFIL process to initialize the Record Control byte

Hello, The ZIFIL process (program CYBD) misses to initialize the Record Control byte. Following label CYB105, the Record ID and the Record Code Check bytes are initialized but not the Record Control byte. The following instruction will do the job:...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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