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z/TPF Product Family

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Data Reduction report to show maximum list sizes per I-stream & time

Currently Data reduction shows a maximum value for Cross, Ready, Input and Defer lists based on the sum of each I-streams maximum value during the Data Collection period.This enhancement request is for Data reduction to also report the maximum val...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZILGF BACKUP needs a CLEAR option to delete old keypoint versions

A LGF IPL gives the option to save loaded keypoints with the ZILGF BACKUP command, but Keypoints not included in the LGF load retain their older versions in the LGF backup area and this can cause problems when restoring them with: zimag keypt rest...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

zTPF Dupe Record Read Queuing

Problem title READ Dupe Queuing needs change to support major DASD installation of IBM Storage or 3rd party . Software problem with existing DUPE READ QUEUING... z/TPF is operating as if READS are still slow - in modern storage is fasterfaster tha...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Predictable TCP ISN(Initial Sequence Number) vulnerability problem

This server uses TCP/IP implementation that repects the "64K rule" or a "time dependent rule" for generating TCP sequence numbers. Unauthorizd users can predict sequence numbers when hosts are cummnicating, and connect to your servers from any sou...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Modification to "Save Conflict" Dialog

"Save Conflict" dialog enhancement request: (see attached email)Can we get this dialog box modified to do these two things? 1. Change the default selection of the middle radio button (“Overwrite the remote file”) 2. For the third “save” option, ca...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Limit the expiry time of MQ messages

"Limiting the expiry time of messages:Enable limiting the expiry time of any message put to a queue or topic by using the CAPEXPRY attribute specified in the CUSTOM attribute on the queue or topic."
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

zdcor ASCII option

Customer is asking for an option on zdcor to display data in ascii for exampleZDCOR 52538800.800 TR-ASCII the default would still be EBCDICIn today World there are more and more situations where TPF could be working with data that might be in ASCI...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MongoDB / BSON Data Event Dispatch Adapter

The customer is looking for a MongoDB Data Event Dispatch Adapter. to to able to replicate TPF data into a standard remote MongoDB server directly.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Console message when IP trace to tape queue threshold is reached

Our IP trace data is written to RTA tape. Our coverage team has noticed that during RTA tape switch processing, sometimes IP trace data seems to be missing. This likely the result of RTA tape queue exceeding our CK2IPTPQ (100) value. PIU trace log...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Increase the send / receive buffer sizes to greater than 1 meg

Increase the send / receive buffer sizes to greater than 1 meg - would also require an increased window scale factor supported by TPF
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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