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z/TPF Product Family

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(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to create a consolidated view of Migration Considerations for a user defined batch of APARs

Understanding migration considerations is a critical part of installing APARs. Each APEDIT has a MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS section for IBM to document various APAR impacts including: Functional automation and operation changes, API changes, SIP imp...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a reliable means to identify all tapes associated with a given dump

If a dump spans more than one tape, you must include all tape numbers on the dump post processing request to obtain the complete dump. If you do not include all tape numbers, the post processing will complete with abend code 2999. Although a tape ...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Support for multiple Vertical Name-Value Pair metrics collection in Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC)

Currently RTMC supports a single Vertical NVP collection based on the ECB Owner High field where the performance metrics of an ECB can be subdivided based on each time the Vertical NVP (ECB Owner High) changes. If ECB Owner High is changed as an E...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Increase NVP block size

We anticipate sending 40-100 NVPs including NVP metrics. As such, we are concerned that the maximum size of the name value pair area of 4k may be too small at this time.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Needs more information

RTMC NVP metric support

Today, name-value pairs can be horizontal or vertical annotations of the message being processed. We need to be able to send customer defined metrics as part of the name-value pair data as metrics that behave as data columns instead of the as anno...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 0 Under review

Add sort options to the ZDTAP entry

With options to sort on UNIT or Volume, it is easier to see what tapes or units are mounted.At this moment the ZDTAP without option just displays all units and tapes. ZDTAP [SORT [Volume]] would make live much easier for operators to see what is g...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 12 Future consideration

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