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z/TPF Product Family

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RTMC - SSL Connections for Kafka

Need the ability to easily configure tpfrtmc and the RTMC analyzer to connect to kafka with SSL. Example of relevant settings below. May not be a complete list. security.protocol=ssl.keystore.location=ssl.keystore.password=ssl.key.password= ssl.tr...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Make CP22 APAR PH44215 (new back chain validation) configurable by new CRUISE Table parameter.

CP22 APAR PH44215 included new back chain validation where the backward chain in the prime should now be the last in chain. Full backward chain validation is also in play with PH44215.We ran into some old/legacy databases that were created before ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) Enable CSV Serialization using DFDL

There is current functionality to create documents from a CSV formatted data stream using DFDL. There is not the inverse functionality. We are currently receiving a number of CSV files which require code to be written to parse the data into a form...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Send DS8K health status info to the TPF console

To help improve the operator’s awareness of conditions within the DS8K DASD control unit on production systems, we would like to take the health information that the DS8K is already collecting and send it to the TPF console.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide tiling options for the TOS gui, both at launch time and later.

Predecessor step: correct issue where the -sf option does not work with a locked gui. Otherwise tiling will provide little benefit. Provide the ability to tile host sessions within the gui in different ways: 1 Tiling example at gui startup: jcon.b...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

Please validate TPF Operations Server (TOS) on Windows 2022

We are trying to make some new servers for our TOS installation, and there is a push for us to use Windows 2012 in order to put off the inevitable next upgrade upgrade a little longer. Could it be ready before January 2023?
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support tpf_STCKE_to_timet and tpf_timet_to_STCKE

The tpf_STCK_to_timet and tpf_timet_to_STCK APIs convert an 8 byte TOD format used by STCK/STCKF to a time_t and vice versa. But the 8 byte TOD format will wrap in 2042. As part of the strategy to remediate existing date problems and avoid new one...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Proxy Use to Enhanced HTTP Client

Access external web service from within a protected network and limiting security scope with proxy server instead of direct access. We are deploying applications to the cloud and need to access them from our z/TPF system through a proxy.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) Provide notification if zTPF is brought up in a cross-drawer i-stream config

If zTPF runs such that the hardware layout of its CPs is cross-drawer there can be significant performance penalties. Even though capacity plans and hardware upgrades can ensure no cross-drawer configurations are actually necessary, there is alway...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add the ability to parse AbstractCommandHandler remote command output for compile errors to populate the Problems view in TPF Toolkit 4.6

The programmers rely on the Problems view to enable them to go right to where any errors occur because you can click on an item in the view and it will open the appropriate file and make that line the current line. IBM provided a sample of plugins...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered