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z/TPF Product Family

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Lrec ID data collection

TPFDF needs to collect statistics on the access/updates by Lrec id for a given file. These stats do not need to be collected for all files.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

z/TPF Toolkit - Selective activation of loadset by IP address

Feature 1: Selective activation of loadset by IP address Feature 2:With feature 1, allow debugging of ECB launched from Toolkit.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

keyrc protection restoration should be nested

A method is needed to allow nested sa ving and restoring of protect keys. The current keyrc method only works for 1 level.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

STIM items scheduled on same minute boundary

after some research we found this was because of a peak in activityscheduled from the STIM table.This bottleneck is caused by the STIM table scheduling too many itemson the same minute boundary, this is most noticable after a long outagewhen TPF i...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

ztpld clear out the KSA (keypiont staging area)

Customer is requesting that ztpld program load process program (cil0) always clear out the KSA (keypoint staging area). The reason for the change is that there was an old keypoint in the keypoint staging area when keypoints were being loaded .  On...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Host Connecion Emulator Session missing from Toolkit 4.6

I am in charge of migrating TPF Toolkit from version 4.2.11 to version 4.6 and there is major functionnality that missing : Host Connecion Emulator Session. Most of our developers use this feature to connect to the TPF machine and perform tests. A...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Suppress/Circumvent MVT messages

I've been requested to ask IBM if they can provide a method of circumventing the MVT Validation during IPL/Restart of a VPARs System. We currently have many 1/2 test systems (1K modules) which when IPL'ed against create pages and pages of errors b...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support 4K RSA Encryption/Decryption via Crypto

The Dept. of Treasury is requiring us to adopt stronger security standards, such as using >2K public/private RSA keys, specifically, 3K or 4K keys. The issue is performance-related (CPU). The z/TPF OS has only put in support to call the crypto ...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF data collection

TPFDF open/close routines in UBC0 collect data for ECB resource monitor, CDC, and TPFDF data collection. These collections run constantly but are rarely used. A switch to control these counters would reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF.
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

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