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z/TPF Product Family

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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

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

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

KAFKA Consumer

Citi z/TPF group has recently received a request to support KAFKA as a consumer. We are actively investigating the possibilities. One staff member was able to get a quick proof of concept working for this very quickly (One day). We are asking IBM ...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information.

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information . Customer is asking for an enhancement request to ZDDSI to include the PCHID information that is associate with the CHIPID for the associated device. This information would be very useful in ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Allow z/TPF to run without consoles

Allow TPF to run if no consoles are available and an attempt to fallback to the HMC is not successful. Do not crash TPF, instead, send all console data to the RTA tape via TOURC for later on analysis. We have had conditions where TPF took a catast...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Is a defect

z/TPF SNAP dumps - option to SERRC

We propose adding code to IBM segments that contain SNAP dump code to have an option to take a SERRC instead. The segment can interrogate a new Format-2 Global. If the IBM segment name is found in the global, take a SERRC instead of a SNAP dump. I...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow ZOSAE modification without network down

When attempting to change the real IP address or Gateway IP address of a primary OSA definition, the change is rejected if the alternate OSA is active. This requires a network outage to change the IP information on an OSA adapter that is already i...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IPtrace output.

Customer is requesting an option when post processing IPtrace to include both the EBCDIC and ASCII side by side on the same report. Today it lets them request either EBCDIC or ASCII
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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