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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

Defining separate VLAN for primary and alternate

When defining an OSA1PRIM/OSA1ALT redundant pair of interfaces, the VLAN tag defined for the Primary is forced on the Alternate when an interface failover takes place. We don’t believe this is correct if these interfaces are not part of an LACP ag...
8 months 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

Multi-Thread ZPOOL INIT Entries

Currently the ZPOOL INIT functions are single threaded, and there is a real need for these functions to be mult-threaded. The multi-threaded logic currently runs in seconds(production) and minutes in Native and VPARS. The current IBM logic runs fo...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) > 2042 TOD support - New APIs to assist in remediation strategies

The STCK/STCKF 8 byte format TOD will wrap in 2042. To help customers remediate issues in their code as early as possible and to avoid customers writing additional code that subsequently needs remediation, we would like IBM to provide new datatype...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Option to Chain Chase both Prime/Dupe Copies of records in a Duplex environment

New functionality to force Recoup to chain chase both prime/dupe copies of records during Phase 1 and do a comparison of record header content to flag inconsistencies.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Need tool that allows for manual merging of 3 files creating a new 4th file

As a developer, when there is source contention on a file, a tool is needed to help resolve that contention by generating a new file containing the differences manually selected by the developer. A tool is needed that will assist in resolving cont...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support generating a compiler warning if iostream is included in a build

With GCC 7, including iostream results in a global object being instantiated regardless of whether it is actually used. This drives substantial (approx 5% measured) overhead at runtime. GCC 4.6 included a specific mod to defer instantiation until ...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add mask possibility other than '*' to the connection details of the TPF debugger. Example of mask: 172.*.*.*

Since Covid many off use started working from home including the use of the TPF debugger. However, at home you have more than 1 IP address and we know you can supply the IP address in the advanced option of the debug session.But every day we log o...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

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