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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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance Endpoint Descriptor processing and add new ept.xml Elements to change auto-undeploy error processing - adding auto-redeploy.

An endpoint descriptor is automatically undeployed when the number of consecutive errors is greater than the number of connections defined in the ept.xml. Once the system auto-undeploys the endpoint descriptor, it has to be manually re-deployed (v...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance SSL diagnosis

Recently we had a rouge SSL client application not completing the connect SSL handshake. This tied up all out threads in the procs that INET port was defined to. This affect all other port assigned to those procs, and affected other users. More de...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow ZCDNV to set a configurable number of NVPs that would be displayed on Dump messages sent to prime cras console

As we increase the use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area is becoming increasingly important to our application developers to rapi...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide a way to clear the keypoint staging area for a TLD install

If a TLD is installed that does not include any keypoints then the target image keypoint staging area is untouched. While this can be useful in some cases, it can also lead to unfortunate consequences if a "standard" TLD procedure is adopted to 1)...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a reliable means to identify all tapes associated with a given dump

If a dump spans more than one tape, you must include all tape numbers on the dump post processing request to obtain the complete dump. If you do not include all tape numbers, the post processing will complete with abend code 2999. Although a tape ...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Support for multiple Vertical Name-Value Pair metrics collection in Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC)

Currently RTMC supports a single Vertical NVP collection based on the ECB Owner High field where the performance metrics of an ECB can be subdivided based on each time the Vertical NVP (ECB Owner High) changes. If ECB Owner High is changed as an E...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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