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TPF MongoDB user account password expiration

Please add the ability for user accounts in the TPF MongoDB server to be created and maintained with the following: 1) non expiring password2) a password that changing after a configurable number of days.3) a password that expires and can only be ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB connection limits by user account

Please implement the ability to configure connection limits to the TPF MongoDB server by user account.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Request to have a PCF Command Server

Working with z/OS MQ group on a new application from a 3rd party vendor (NASTEL), it was brought to my attention of a centralized DB of sorts with all current z/OS MQ parameters and status'. When NASTEL was approached by TPF Systems in regards to ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Subsecond retransmit APAR PJ43958 lacks ability to set minimum RTO

With PJ43958, IP retransmit time was reduced from 1-2 seconds to ~20ms. Some connection are known to be low priority with varying network response time. For these connection, we would like to be able to set a higher minimum RTO (similar to how it ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Client Socket Traffic Limiting

Prior to PJ41739, traffic limiting parameters in the Network Services Database (APPLRATE and SOCRATE) could be utilized to limit traffic rate for client sockets. PJ41739 removed the interrogation of the NSD for client sockets. It seems that the pi...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF TE MIPS Reporting of Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP)

1. Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP) must support measuring, collecting and reporting of z/TPF Transformation Engine (TE) MIPS on a per ECB basis. 2. The Owner Name and NVP Resource Collector writes the information to a Tape 3. Tha...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZSTAT GPU TE MIPS Enhancement

a. Enhance "zstat gpu" to display TE MIPS display by I-Stream. b. Currently an approximated TE MIPS may be calculated from the current display by subtracting GP MIPS from Actual MIPS for the entire LPAR. c. However, the approximation may be dis...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

SCRT IBM Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance SCRT report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions such as: a. Compression i. Compression b. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP c. Middleware Data i. ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Stack Validation dump CTL-064009 should allow return to application

Stack Validation is a ZSTRC trace option introduced with PUT12 and is very effective in identifying applications that corrupt their own stack variables.However it is also a victim of its own success as the resulting CTL-064009 dump exit the applic...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Shutdown option after performing an update

I would like an option for the user to choose between either closing or restarting IBM TPF Toolkit after is update is performed. Currently, the user is shown a box with "OK" as the only option and it restarts automatically.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration