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z/TPF Product Family

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RTMC - Roll up Name Value Pair data into summary groups

This is a request for logical summary groups to be created for RTMC name value pair data. When there are hundreds of values for a name value pair (e.g MsgType) the default dashboards can be overwhelming with too much granular data. We need a highe...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Tooling required to keep online and offline image unique file system files in sync and cleanup obsolete/superseded content

The list of files loaded online on TPF in /sys/tpf_pbfiles the list of files included in an OLD or TLD deck using the current content of tpf.loadfile can be different. We need a way to be able to determine what those differences are, and a way to ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZFILE json display

As JSON config files are being added to the TPF system, it will be beneficial to have a "pretty json" display available for the TPF file system, where files are encoded in ascii. For example - the configs for ZMATC are json and used to modify the ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TOS Gui: add ability to save and restore sessions and screen locations.

Everytime a user opens the TOS Gui, they have to open and arrange all of their desired sessions. This is time consuming and repetitive, especially in a 7x24 environment when tpf operators start their shift. Enhance the TOS Gui to be able to save o...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Provide ZFILE function to display largest file system files and/or directories that can be sorted on zTPF

Provide a way to display file system usage that can be sorted. Currently ZFILE du does not support an option to sort output by file/directory size. The output can be very large and is difficult to manually scan for the largest files. We need funct...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Provide ZFILE sort command

Provide a way to sort output from ZFILE commands. Many ported ZFILE commands do not have all options supported and the ability to sort on z/TPF the ZFILE output is essential in quickly finding details without having to use ZPAGE or cut/paste or wr...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

zHSC needs Package Option to not Lock Socket on zHSC Send and not Correlate zHSC Reply

z/TPF High Speed Connector (zHSC) needs API Options that do not Lock the TCP/IP Socket that the zHSC Message is being sent on as well as not expect a zHSC Reply on that socket that needs to be Correlated.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

z/TPF zMQ support for multiple MQ Connection Names to Multi-Instance (MI) MQ Servers

1. Z/TPF currently generally needs to interact with Multi-Instance (MI) distributed MQ Clusters through a Virtual IP Address (VIP) and Load Balancer or similar abstracting infrastructure. 2. This is because z/TPF does not support multiple MQ Conne...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Data reduction system-wide CPU and mils enhancements

Request the following NEW metrics in data reduction reports to allow for easier tracking of transactional workload once LP workload increases:1) System avg Smoothed Adjusted CPU. Avg calculated for in-use (not fenced) i/streams2) System avg "Trans...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration