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z/TPF Product Family

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would like to see fsck display the inode numbers in both dec and hex

The zfile ls –ali entry responds with the inode directory # for each directory & file and it is given in decimal format. However, to do a zdrec linode.n, you want ordinal number in hex. In contrast, results from a zfile fsck run displays the h...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Add MQ functionality to zTPF - MRTMR and MRRTY

Asking for a standard retry mechanisms be added to the z/TPF MQ product.Here is what is requested: Channel parameters affecting message retry Message Retry Interval - MRTMR - Default(1000) - The minimum time in milliseconds that must pass before t...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Application level data on Continuous Data Collection

ITM currently provides system level monitoring. However, there is a huge need to be able to drill down to application level monitoring. The current standard data collection has the ability to get file statistics and program statistics. However, th...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Prot record initialization

When bring up a loosely coupled z/TPF from a zero'ed data base the prot records (#PRORI.) both tape and utility records should be initialized programmatically by the using program.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TOS Console Fallback

When performing manual console fallback from a given TOS/OSA-ICC 3215 device due to operator entry/response being Out-Of-Sequence (OOS), it appears that when returning to the same device, the associated OSA-ICC card has not always been reset prope...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

mask password on ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE

ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE password not masked on the CSMP0099I echoed response. Please update CVAU and CKYZ to do this just like was done for ZKEYS PASSWORD. Thanks
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

OSA VIPA swing

Currently, the TPF system only supports swinging of VIPA's when the OSA connection that was previously active fails. TPF does not support an automatic swing of VIPA's when OSA's fail during activation. From the TPF documentation.... VIPAs can swin...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

XML build for C structs for SW00SR view

As the SW00SR view is implemented today, it relies on XML maps generated from the assembler macro.The customer is asking for the the SW00SR view to accommodate XML maps from C structs.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

IPL recovery log status message

Customer is requesting additional status information during IPL of the recovery log . They would like to know if the log is being processed or if it's hung. Here is an example of a message. The thought is that we would know that the log is progres...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Heap Storage Statistic

Please add heap storage metrics to data gathered in z/TPF by Continuous Data Collection.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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