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z/TPF Product Family

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Console message when IP trace to tape queue threshold is reached

Our IP trace data is written to RTA tape. Our coverage team has noticed that during RTA tape switch processing, sometimes IP trace data seems to be missing. This likely the result of RTA tape queue exceeding our CK2IPTPQ (100) value. PIU trace log...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Increase the send / receive buffer sizes to greater than 1 meg

Increase the send / receive buffer sizes to greater than 1 meg - would also require an increased window scale factor supported by TPF
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Provide more information in OPR-F and OPR-FFFFFFC dumps

The information provided in the OPR-F and OPR-FFFFFFC dumps is not helpful. There is just not enough information in the dumps to be able to track back to a root cause. Having the original LNIATA, the original EBROUT(if they are different), the ori...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZSTIM responses should include CPU id when using PROC=ALL

When using PROC=ALL on a ZSTIM ADD entry, a response is generated per CPU id but you have no idea what response goes with which CPU. Responses should include CPU id.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support RTC and RTC Integration for TPF Toolkit 4.2.5

Support Rational Team Concert 6.0 and RTC Integration with current release of TPF Toolkit 4.2.5
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Need for High water mark alarm for OSABUFFER utlization

Issuing an alarm when hitting high water mark for OSABUFFERS before getting to buffer full condition will give users time to take action instead for waiting for 'TTCP0323W 05.45.13 ALL READ BUFFERS FULL ' and associated CTL-5A dump. Related to RFE...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

More granular OSA buffer usage displays

Currently zosae buffer sums greater than 31 buffer full instances in one bucket. Like to see from 32-65 displayed same way 0-31 are broken-down.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Add new DASD IOB Dequeue User Exit to ccsons/cjiu.cpy CJJDIORM

Add a new CP User Exit to cjiu.cpy in the Common DASD IOB de-queue routine CJJDIORM to allow Customer use for monitoring, etc.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

NEW option on save regs

Customer is ask for an enhancement to the SAVEREGS option as part of ENTRC, to be able to allow for the exclusion of individual registers, which might need to be excluded to allow for communication between the calling and called segments. All of t...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Subsystem Users Not Collecting Correctly

The subsystem user fields in Continuous Data Collection are not being captured correctly. As it works today, only the AA subsystem user is capturing message data. The other subsystem users will capture USER EXITS and ECBs, but not anything else. T...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration