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z/TPF Product Family

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Add Heap Memory High Watermarks to default RTMC Dashboards for JVMs

We would like to see the 64-bit and 31-bit high water marks for the heap regions used by JVMs limited by MAXXMES, MAXXMAP, and EMPS. This would be incredibly helpful to monitor Java for any problem troubleshooting, and give us an easier way to fin...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide information about loadset resource consumption to warn of possible problems managing very large loadsets

If a loadset contains a very large number of programs, or programs that are very large, activation can result in unexpectedly large increases in CRPA consumption, and loadset accept processing can temporarily consume an unexpectedly large number o...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Encrypt the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards

IRS would like to ask if the TPF lab would consider encrypting the traffic between the TOS Server and Mainframe OSA-ICC cards. Currently it is not-encrypted (its on the LAN, not the WAN, its local traffic only). But we’re being asked to verify tha...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Ensure runtime metrics collection captures a rare or desired messages.

Some utilities or messages occur extremely rarely (like once every 5 or 60 minutes). If RTMC is sampling 300 ECBs/sec of a 10k/sec workload, it is highly unlikely that utility/message of interest will be captured in the normal course of NVP collec...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Dump history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. It would be advantageous to show on these graphs when a dump occurs. This may be particularly useful in light of idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm....
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Loadset history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. Many of these metrics can be affected by the activation of new code (actual CPU, CPU used by a particular message type/NVP, ECBs in use, etc). It would be adv...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Ensure the REST OLDR functions provide proper audit trail to Prime Cras for any changes to a program loadset's status or composition.

Two critical and standard practices used in zTPF systems are the restriction of certain system alteration entries and functions to a CRAS terminal, and the journaling of the resulting alterations themselves to the Prime CRAS system console. The Pr...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance zfile tar to include a compression option

zfile tar should include compression to reduce the output for easier archiving and backup. This should take advantage of IBM's hardware compression.
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG - Allow an option for the z/TPF user to change the default load balance behavior for SSL Shared Sessions.

In the current environment the default load balance behavior for SSL shared sessions is to assign an SSL daemon at the time the application CTX (context) is created. All sessions for this application will be assigned to this daemon. This behavior ...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration