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z/TPF Product Family

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OSA queue displays online CDC and Data reduction.

Customer is requesting an  online display to show the number of items on the OSA input lists.   In z/TPF   all three queues should be displayed , the regular OSA input queue,  a high-priority input queue and the  staging queue.   In addition infor...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce tape queuing due to system logging (RTV/W)

All system logging I/O to tapes (RTV/W) are currently queued to the main I-stream. At the top of every minute, we have observed the main i-stream to be busy that causes tape I/Os to queue up. We would like system logging I/Os to tape be moved to s...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

TOPNC (Open General Tape ) default for the BUF= option default to yes.

The customer is requesting that the TOPNC (Open General Tape ) default for the BUF= option default to yes.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

zdkat (enhanced zdkat display keypionts )

The current zdkat entry to display keypionts should be enhanced to include an all option to display all of the processor keypionts for the complex. For example the display would look like this...14:00:57 000000 ECHO : zdkat kpa all 14:00:58 004000...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Expose connection user id information to menu manager actions

Can you expose the linux and other connection user id/pw to menu manager and TPFTool actions such that user prompts can be removed.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

TPF Toolkit shutdown user exit.

User exit needed to run a clean up or installation bat file when the TPF Toolkit is shut down.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

: Remote Console hex view

Could the remote console be enhanced to provide a hex view/editor of the content to allow the user to view and possibly correct non-printable characters?
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 2 Not under consideration

Telnet interface in Toolkit

Could a Putty or similar interface to linux be integrated into the TPF Toolkit. Maybe there is something in Eclipse or another IBM product that could be leveraged over and above our existing shell.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Create a trace route function that uses ICMP

Currently there is trace route functionality on z/TPF that uses UDP. We have had difficulty using this since our firewall routers discard the UDP packets and the trace route does not complete properly. We are asking that another trace route utilit...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Simplify tape handling and add equates to tpftape.h

Enhance ZTDEV and update tpftape.h1. Allow for a range of devices when using the ZTDEV ENA, DISA, [Deleted], and UNA options. Example:ZTDEV ENA 340-F B40-FZTDEV DISA 340-F B40-FZTDEV [Deleted] 340-F B40-F GROUP-ALLZTDEV UNA 340-F B40-F GROUP-ALL 2...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

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