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z/TPF Product Family

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Limiting the number of trace files in Performance Analyzer

System: z/TPF Toolkit Performance Analyzer Actor: Program developers using the Toolkit PA Description: It's possible for Performance Analyzer (PA) to run a whole heck of a lot of times if the program(s) being analyzed for a given registration entr...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Track the time an ECB spends on a CPU Loop list

Collect information either by ECB/SWB or by CPU Loop list of the longest time (high watermark) an item that was placed on a CPU Loop list had to wait before being serviced.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow HLASM to run on an x86 Linux server

Currently the HLASM build only works on a Linux system running on a zSeries mainframe, this restriction means we must purchase an IFL and mainframe storage to run just one Linux server, the TPF Toolkit guest.This IFL runs on the same hardware as o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Toolkit Custom Dataset Handler

We have a 'custom dataset handler' plugin for our TPF Toolkit at Amadeus. It reads the program and version in the object file and therefore locates the correct source file in the Folder that is given. It handles a format like below (for program ST...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Provide a timeout option on FIWHC

Provide a new optional keyword on FIWHC to specify a timeout value. This timeout value, if specified, will be used as the maximun wait time on hold queues. If the FIWHC is timed out it will return to the application for handling the condition. Thi...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow for microsecond precision on IP trace

We would like the ability to specify the time down to microseconds, when requesting IP trace output.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 3 Not under consideration

Data Binding for XML and JSON

The standard industry approach to handling JSON and XML payloads is to use a data binding solution (has objects that serialize and deserialize XML or JSON streams directly). Data Bindling objects are compiled from message specifications e.g. XSD f...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

FINIS macro should allow user to configure patch area size

The FINIS macro is included in every online TPF assembler program and has a fixed 1024 byte constant intended as a program patch area.We never had occasion to use this patch area as an OLDR load is a far safer and convenient method of resolving a ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE Restore BFA tape roll-in should allow read from multiple drives concurrently

The CRUISE Restore tape roll-in should allow tape reads from multiple drives concurrently. CRUISE should have the option to use more than one tape drive concurrently for the BFA tape roll-in phase. The tape drives can be kept stacked with tapes so...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Memory view add monitor action

In the memory view, you can right click and choose go to address.  That action opens the address in the current memory monitor.  However, sometimes it is desirable to open the addresss in a new monitor such that the two addresses can be ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration