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z/TPF Product Family

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Provide option in CRUISE Restore to write fixed file blocks directly to their fixed file addresses, bypassing the pool copy.

For a production system, there is live data and traffic so the integrity of the system has to be the primary consideration. However, in the context of building a test system or creating test data, the strict integrity requirement can be relaxed. O...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

TCP Ephemeral Port Range

The z/TPF TCP/IP stack is using the port range 1024-5000 for outbound connections which was consistent with the BSD implementation at the time the inboard stack was introduced to TPF4.1. However since RFC6335 was published in August 2011 the best ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

LINK option needs to be reinstated for ZTRAP offline

Problem title LINK option not being used for ZTRAP offline . Problem description LINK option in 4.1 ESPM was used to determine what program was using system services like DF. In zTPF implementation there is no difference in the report for LINK YES...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Improve the performance of CRUISE TOP file address exchange

In the first phase of RESTORE, the BFA Capture tapes are read and each data block is filed to new pool and cross-reference files are updated. Following the tape “roll in” phase, there is a phase called address exchange or “fad exchange” where old ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Improve CRUISE restore execution time

Improve CRUISE restore execution time by adopting multi I-Stream and multi ECB processing. CRUISE Restore consists of 3 stages:1. TAPE Rollin2. Address Exchange (FAD Exchange)3. Fixed Address Exchange (FAD Exchange Part TWO) 1. Tape Rollin (Need c...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 4 Delivered

TPFDF Lrec Display Overlap in Debug

While in toolkit debug, would like the option to over lay a different lrec layout than the one defined in the sw00sr column of display. Today I can successfully pointed the lrec configuration directory to the one I wanted but I see that it tries t...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

allow ZPOOL INIT RECOUP/PDU/PSDIR entries to use multiple ECBS

allow ZPOOL INIT RECOUP/PDU/PSDIR entries to use multiple ECBS
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Include an Overview tab in Toolkit Trace Log Analysis data

The Toolkit trace log analysis gives a lot of detailed data for resources used by each program called during the trace, but sometimes it is difficult to get an overview for the whole trace.A new "Overview" tab in the Trace Log Analysis section wou...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Calculation of Message Existence Time

Customer finds message existence time useful in tracking performance. Existence time is mean ecb's inuse/message rate. For example mean 500 ecb's inuse to process 5000 msg/sec means message existence time is 100 mils.IBM does report ecb's inuse an...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Add TPFDF data to Continuous Data Collection

Currently we have no active monitoring of the TPFDF Databases and their performance. Part of the difficulty is lack of adequate real-time and archival tools to provide current and historical data for monitoring and determining trends. The tools th...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

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