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z/TPF Product Family

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(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 0 Under review

(TPFUG/Visa) Need to remediate the overhead of special linkage libraries being in loadsets

Frequently Entered Program (FEP) support provides the means to alleviate the cost of having a program in a loadset that is entered many times by the same ECB. The FEP support allows an ECB to determine the version it should use by locking the base...
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Support data compression in the z/TPFDF product (TPFUG Requirement)

Support subfile data compression/decompression with option to compress the entire subfile or selected Lrecs.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Provide capability to ZRIPL with CLEAR option

Reduce time to IPL during planned outage windows. If customers could zripl with change image names as well as CLEAR main memory operator intervention could be removed.
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Enhance SSL diagnosis

Recently we had a rouge SSL client application not completing the connect SSL handshake. This tied up all out threads in the procs that INET port was defined to. This affect all other port assigned to those procs, and affected other users. More de...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide encrypting find/file databases similar to z/TPFDF encryption

As PCI, PII, and GDPR requirements become more and more stringent, it will be as important to encrypt traditional Find/File databases as much as z/TPFDF databases. IBM already provides the built-in ability to encrypt/decrypt through database defin...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide a way to clear the keypoint staging area for a TLD install

If a TLD is installed that does not include any keypoints then the target image keypoint staging area is untouched. While this can be useful in some cases, it can also lead to unfortunate consequences if a "standard" TLD procedure is adopted to 1)...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Heap Memory High Watermarks to default RTMC Dashboards for JVMs

We would like to see the 64-bit and 31-bit high water marks for the heap regions used by JVMs limited by MAXXMES, MAXXMAP, and EMPS. This would be incredibly helpful to monitor Java for any problem troubleshooting, and give us an easier way to fin...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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