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z/TPF Product Family

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ZDHST disp tot

The command zdhst when displaying the dumps totals from the logs in the file system results in ( UNABLE TO GET HEAP STORAGE FOR ZDHST COMMAND) way too often. The current process is to use the file(s) within the file system across the LC complex to...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Display of all items in the CRPA area

Add a display of all items in the CRPA areas.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TPF CPU Measurement report for our clients

This request is for IBM to provide HP with the ability to provide CPU measurement reporting for TPF systems running for one of our clients. The data will help both provider and customer manage the CPU performance of the TPF applications and system...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Debugger Callback Issue

Toolkit Debugger callback (TPF test system doing a call back to user desktop running Debugger) is causing conflicts with DXC corporate security policies. I would like to ask IBM to evaluate alternatives in order to avoid costly workarounds for users.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

TOS client and server should support IPv6

The Government is under a mandate to convert all systems and products to IPv6 networking, as IPv6 offers more capability and security. Eventually the government will remove IPv4 traffic thereby eliminating dual-stack requirements.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Not under consideration

Separate counts by OSA for ZTTCP STATs display

On systems with multiple OSAs defined, exception counts (out of order, retransmit, fast retransmit, etc.) are accumulated and displayed together making it difficult to identify or troubleshoot which osa card is having an issue when the counts star...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

maloc enhancements

Improvements need to be make when working with the avl5 list as it deals with fragmentation . Plus additional data collection reports need to be made available to better detect and analysis the issue. In this case there was an application requesti...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Implement gRPC / Protocol Buffers for native support (C/C++ interface) in zTPF

We would like to make use of a streaming network protocol such as gRPC / Protocol Buffers. Currently we running into to issues with blocking protocols such as HTTP/S. We are looking at using gRPC under Java on zTPF but concerned with the performan...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Data collection should support user message counters and a customizable weighted message calculation

• A vanilla object code version of offline DATAREAD should be shipped so that customers with no local mods do not have to compile the offline code. If customers can use the vanilla shipped DATAREAD they would not need a PL/1 compiler and could sav...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 4 Not under consideration

Recoup Phase 5 use of the RTL tape

Recoup phase 5 (ZRECP DUMP entry) writes all lost and erroneously available file pool records to the current real-time logging tape (RTA or RTL). Can the recoup phase 5 process be changed to write to a different tape thats only used for recoup? HP...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

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