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ZRECP DUMP processing and Selectice Dump Trace

ZRECP DUMP uses Selective Dump and Trace to dump out relatively small chunks of data for each Lost Address and writes it to the RTL Tape. If the RFE to change the output tape is every acted upon then the code needs to be changed to do some blockin...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Allow CTAL functions to be excluded from C function trace via a user config file

Often C function trace is populated with trivial CTAL function calls that record the fact an application has read a global field, issued a levtest or CINFC call. Some applications call these functions very frequently so often +30% of C function tr...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

DFDL performance improvement

DFDL performance improvement is need for r a large choice with hundreds of discriminators this would involve supporting DFDL choiceDispatchKey and choiceBranchKey
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

restart status for diagnostic purposes.

The request is to add add status into the restart process for betterdiagnostic purposes, it order to know which program was called if restart dies or if it is taking a long time to complete.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Code Coverage should provide instruction level analysis capabilities

Code Coverage currently supports a source line view of code exection. However, there are multiple instances where it would be helpful to break down execution coverage at the instruction level.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Additional diagnostic info to determine path/version of tpftools and linux bin being used (for example offldr inside loadtpf)

PJ43352 delivered a new version of offldr so when staging code that was to load with this new version we set up our paths such that we would pick up the new version. We ran into a problem where some users were executing the new version of offldr a...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Publish APAR text file in XML

I have written an APAR management tool implemented as a plugin in the TPF Toolkit. I have coded a scan to extract information from the PJnnnnn.txt file. I would be able to enhance the automation if the APAR text were also available in an XML file.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TRLOG better trace parsing under 32bit Windows operating system

Toolkit TRLOG is unable to parse large trace files over 100MB due to heap storage restrictions on a Windows 32bit workstation.The maximum heap allowed is 1GB, however the lpex editor requires 800MB storage to process a 100MB .report trace file so ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

TRLOG allow detailled analysis without first parsing the trace file

TRLOG detail analysis is only possible once the trace file was read and a parsed version of the trace file created. This RFE request is to provide a means to create the detailled analysis reports directly from the trace log.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

ZINET ADD, ALT and DEL allow a procid. Display doesn't.

Request to enhance ZINET Display for a specific processor. Currently today ZINET function allows a procid to be specified on all but thedisplay request. Adding listeners for new CPUs we are bringing upbut I can't verify the add worked correctly wi...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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