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z/TPF Product Family

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Optimize macro trace and function trace buffer allocation

Could IBM review the effect of trace buffer allocation on system performance?Currently both the macro trace and function traces are split between regular and extended buffers, so any update requires access to storage in two different cache lines.B...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF to use DHCP server to get IP addresses

Currently the ZOSAE command requires a specific IP address to be entered. This is fine for production systems, but I would like an option to use DHCP for test systems. We have hundreds of VPARS/Test TPF systems and some "home grown" software to ma...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

zimag path information

It would be useful if the zimag display could should the path information for keypoints and CIMR components that are loaded onto the z/TPF complex. The reason for the request is to get to a common image base that can be loaded/ built across multip...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

z/TPF ETIM System Profiler enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance ETIM System Profiler report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions by I-Stream such as: i. Compression i. Compression ii. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP ii...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Device Error LOG - Storage & Tape (as a start)

ADD on to Specific error detection, corrective action, a communication link for on-line error tracking. A tracking vehicle for (perhaps) "All attached Devices" but at first for Storage Devices. Overhaul existing processes and on-broad tracking in ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need a tool to exploit data from new datacollection reduced under Linux.

The new datareduction under linux will provide data in a new format.Could you provide a tool to archive and analyse the data from datacollection? Something like you will do for Name value Pair Collection with ADI...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPFDF Cruise Verify should give number of items per Lrec Id

Today the CRUISE VERIFY utility gives the total number of ITEMS.We would appreciate to have also the number of items for each Lrec id.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

ZTPF TS7700 Support - ZTPLF LOAD - Optional input parm of tape name

HPE would like a new optional parameter added to the ZTPLF LOAD entry that would identify the tape name that the loaded volume will become via the follow-up entry ZTMNT.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Reduce CDC interval frequency limit

Currently the CDC minimum collection interval is5 seconds. If this could be reduced ( perhaps to 1 second), more granular data would be available. this data would be more useful for problem diagnosis, as well as provide better tivoli monitoring au...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Support Apache V2.4+

Apache 2.4+ is out, and 2.2+ will be out of service by 12/31/17. The Apache HTTP Server Project will only provide maintenance releases of the 2.2.x flavor through June of 2017, and may provide some security patches beyond this date through at leas...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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