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z/TPF Product Family

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ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Include df lrec stats in DF Data Collection

Include lrec accessing stats as part of tpfdf data collection. Include adds, replaces, deletes for top lrecs and their associated subfiles.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

MRD( Multiple Release Detection) enhancement

Requesting two enhancements to the MRD ( IBM for the Multiple Release Detection package) The first request would be to make the timestamp more granular for the release data by changing it from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss. The second request would be to have...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Dignus 2.20 Compiler Support

Add support for the Dignus 2.1 Compiler. It contains a number of improvements and features that we are keen to leverage including improved hardware support and optimizations that we provided to the Dignus team.
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Queue Status Display should include Last Put/Get Date & Time, Message Age, and Queue Existence Times

We need the ability to see the LGETDATE, LGETTIME, LPUTDATE, LPUTTIME, MSGAGE and QTIME on the ZMQSC DIS QL-qname STAT command similar to the MQ distributed platform. dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTOR) 12 : dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTO...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Determining the ports in NSD "OTHER"

If a port is not in the Services file and there is IP traffic coming in and out on it, the counts are thrown into the "OTHER" bucket. Without going through IP trace there is no easy way to determine what ports are being thrown into the "OTHER" buc...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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