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z/TPF Product Family

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Remove keyword ICLH from dumps

Remove keyword ICLD (CLH block management tables) from the dumps to reduce the size.
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Optimize macro trace and function trace buffer allocation

Could IBM review the effect of trace buffer allocation on system performance?Currently both the macro trace and function traces are split between regular and extended buffers, so any update requires access to storage in two different cache lines.B...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Collection Metrics on Preallocated ECB heap and application stack

Expanding preallocated heap and appplication stack storage can consume signficiant memory since the increase applies to all allocated ECBs. We need more metrics to understand the distribution of prealloacted heap/application stack usage by ECBs th...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Planned for future release

KAFKA Consumer

Citi z/TPF group has recently received a request to support KAFKA as a consumer. We are actively investigating the possibilities. One staff member was able to get a quick proof of concept working for this very quickly (One day). We are asking IBM ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

z/TPF ETIM System Profiler enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance ETIM System Profiler report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions by I-Stream such as: i. Compression i. Compression ii. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP ii...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Device Error LOG - Storage & Tape (as a start)

ADD on to Specific error detection, corrective action, a communication link for on-line error tracking. A tracking vehicle for (perhaps) "All attached Devices" but at first for Storage Devices. Overhaul existing processes and on-broad tracking in ...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need a tool to exploit data from new datacollection reduced under Linux.

The new datareduction under linux will provide data in a new format.Could you provide a tool to archive and analyse the data from datacollection? Something like you will do for Name value Pair Collection with ADI...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add TPFDF function details to macro trace in a post processed dump

TPFDF calls appear in dump macro trace as an ENTRC to a UA** assembler program, the reader must then consult the TPFDF programs for details of the actual function.Could this information be included in the macro trace on the same line as the ENTRC?...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 5 Future consideration

ZTPF TS7700 Support - ZTPLF LOAD - Optional input parm of tape name

HPE would like a new optional parameter added to the ZTPLF LOAD entry that would identify the tape name that the loaded volume will become via the follow-up entry ZTMNT.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF to use DHCP server to get IP addresses

Currently the ZOSAE command requires a specific IP address to be entered. This is fine for production systems, but I would like an option to use DHCP for test systems. We have hundreds of VPARS/Test TPF systems and some "home grown" software to ma...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration