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z/TPF Product Family

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TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enable zTPF to run without tapes

Allow TPF to run if no tape drives are available. If no tape drives are operational all the operator has to do is enter a command to disable tape operations which forces tpf to purge all tape queues and throw away all tape writes but allow the sys...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Rearrange CPS0 to make better use of EDAT-1

The CP is a high performance area and 60-70% of CPU processing takes place within it. The CP in zTPF is 2.5MB, the first MB is addressed via DAT but the remaining 1.5MB is addressed by EDAT-1. Therefore as a suggestion would it make sense to move ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Basic Authentication support in zTPF HTTP Server

There is currently no system level code (such as CHT1/2/3) support for this standard "Authorization" HTTP header and zTPF shops have to create their own way for this support. Even though this header is a standard feature in the HTTP server, adopti...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Determining the ports in NSD "OTHER"

If a port is not in the Services file and there is IP traffic coming in and out on it, the counts are thrown into the "OTHER" bucket. Without going through IP trace there is no easy way to determine what ports are being thrown into the "OTHER" buc...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

The CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF works fine except that old pools are not getting released

Hi, When running a CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF database, old pools are not getting released even though the RELEASE option is specified in the CRUISE RESTORE definition table. We prefer to have old pools released following a CRUISE Rest...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Create a NVP for the Network Services Database Name for the port that a message comes in on

We would like IBM to create a name for the NVP, something like INSD_Name and automatically assign the value of the application name defined in the Network Services Database to the ECB based on the port the message came in on.If the port does not e...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZDECB display sort enhancements

Request to add a ZDECB display option to show short lived ECBs first.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Cross-processor Short Term Pool Return & Pool Directory Update

Allow short term pool directories to be updated by any processor in a z/TPF loosely-coupled complex to prevent lost short term pool and accelerated re-dispensing of pool causing improper re-use of pool currently in use by another LNIATA AAA.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to weighted msg rate data reduction metrics

Requesting new metrics for rates per weighted messages that exclude work driven by LP ECBs. Specifically:1) VFA, tape, and 3390 rates per weighted message2) Enters per weighted message Note: high priority RFE id 152827 requests mils/weighted messa...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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