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z/TPF Product Family

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Securing RTMC communications

We are looking at migrating to RTMC as a replacement for the Tivoli Monitoring agent. Having secure communications via TLS 1.2 has been identified as a requirement.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

z/TPF business event APIs to query status and info about active events and dispatch adapters

1. Provide zEV API returning the zEV Names of all Deployed and Active z/TPF zEVents 2. A customer written z/TPF program will call the API every "n" minutes to get a list of all deployed and active z/TPF Business Eventing Facility (zEV) Named Event...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

SWB allocated above the 2gig bar

With the increased usage of MQ and SWB usage , more SWB are needed but space is limited to below the 2gig Bar. This request is to expand SWB's to above the 2gog bar.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need Prime Dupe Compare Tool

We recently had a Prime/Dupe mismatch problem in our FOS production system. We were identifying problem the addresses as dumps surfaced, and/or had to find them manually.Because we only have 2 arrays on that system, we were finally able to determi...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enhanced JAM recycle after activation number change

Currently any activation number change requires to recycle the JAMs. Without JAM recycle loadset cannot be accepted and deleted. In case of multiple loadset load (even these which are not related to JAM's work) it is required to either multiple re...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Ability to securely transfer files into z/TPF

This RFE is for securely transferring files initiated from a remote platform into TPF. This will be an implementation of a Secure FTP server on TPF.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TLS Certificate Expiration Monitor

The TLS Certificate monitor allows a customer to be notified when a certificate is nearing expiration or has already expired. One possible implementation of this is whenever the z/TPF SSL code reads in a cert from file, it will issue a warning mes...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Location of Common deployment file

Currently today there is not a there is not a good way to find out were a common deployment file is located , for a given file, whether and where it exists in loadsets (like ZDPAT C-C for programs). Having such a function would benefit the custome...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide tiling options for the TOS gui, both at launch time and later.

Predecessor step: correct issue where the -sf option does not work with a locked gui. Otherwise tiling will provide little benefit. Provide the ability to tile host sessions within the gui in different ways: 1 Tiling example at gui startup: jcon.b...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

Performance issue with HTTP_Client_Sync_Send() api

Performance tests for a new application using the HTTP_Client_Sync_Send function shows that 42% of the CPU cycles are consumed by the SSL_load_error_strings function in CSSL.This overhead is unecessary because our application is not using the SSL ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered