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z/TPF Product Family

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TOS: Blocking Selected Commands from the Command List

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. Another RFE, 33848, was cr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide Usage statistics for TPF Toolkit and Debugger

We would like to keep usage statistics of how many developers are using TPF Toolkit. It would be helpful to have a system log kept that would be updated with the users name when opening Toolkit.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

For TOS, Provide a Recall Commands Expiration Period

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. We would like the command ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Remove the need for the TOS server to connect back to a port on the TOS client.

TPF Operations Client Server interface connects to the server at tcp/ip port 10001 (configurable) and the server connects back to a tcp/ip port on the client between 1024 and 5000. Requirement is to remove the need for the server to connect back t...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Add tape VSN in TSIO message

The customer has automation in place to sent informational message to individuals when a tape CC3 I/O type of error occurs. It would be helpful if that message included the tape VSN that was mounted on the drive to be included in themessage prefix...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Allow buffered tape writes to be queued in multiple 32K tape buffers

Our system has several applications that use TOUTC to write data to a buffered tape, and must therefore issue a WAITC. Normally this is not an issue as the data is simply moved from the application core to the tape buffer, however if the tape driv...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce maximum CRPA C-O-W storage requirements

On several occasions we have increased our CRPA C-O-W area to avoid the 80% full warning issued by CNG0 SNAPC-064080, however increasing this limit results ina reduction in VFA size due to the extra CRPA page and segment table that are allocated.N...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Display list of programs in 31 or 64 bit COW areas

Currently there is no display to show a list of programs allocated in each C-O-W CRPA program area. This would be useful to identify which programs might be considered for migration to the normal C-O-W area.This information is available in the IPA...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Move TYPE=DATA programs from C-O-W to normal CRPA program area

Currently all TYPE=DATA programs are allocated by default in the C-O-W program area but the majority are never updated.Better to allocate these programs in the normal CRPA area which offers some protection against core corruption and does not attr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase the number of format-1 SYNCC globals

Our system now uses 254 SYNCC global fields. I believe the maximum is 255. Will you be able to support greater than 255 format-1 SYNCC globalfields and/or records? Format-2 global is avialble in z/TPF but Applications keeps asking for more format-...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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