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z/TPF Product Family

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TPFUG: Move APIs under "SOAP bridge related APIs" in c_soap.h to another header file as they are more general use APIs, and IBM is deprecating SOAP and don't want to lose the code

Programs that use primarily the "tpf_convertToAMSG()" and "tpf_convertFromOMSG()" APIs under the "SOAP bridge related APIs" in c_soap.h are more general use APIs. IBM is not going to support SOAP after this summer so we'd like these APIs to be mov...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

RTMC - Grafana links for orgID != 1

The RTMC starter kit dashboards provide internal links that reference orgID=1. This appears to be the default Grafana organization. When multiple organizations are defined in Grafana this may lead to 404 errors when navigating through dashboards. ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Add sending to MQ Distribution lists support to ZTPF MQ Client

Z/TPF Applications want the ability to send one copy of an MQ message to multiple Queue Managers and Multiple Queues
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

z/TPFDF read processing should validate and fix backward chain fields as it reads forward

As TPFDF read processing reads forward through a given subfile from the prime block to the 1st overflow, the 2nd overflow, and so on, TPFDF should validate that the backward chain in the next block contains the file address of the previous block. ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ZCHCH to include a parameter for ONLY the count of chains (not the display of all chains) as well as MAX (or ALL) parameter in place of numeric for number of chains

Parameter for COUNT of chains would eliminate the need to ZPAGE through page after page of displays of addresses to get to the count. Then if chain addresses were needed, a redisplay without the COUNT parameter could be done. Parameter for MAX (or...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Create a functional entry that displays the CVE's, APARS and programs loaded into the z/TPF operating system

This would be extremely useful for our delivery of internal audit requests relating to CVE vulnerabilities on the z/TPF platform. As discussed in the past a functional entry should display the CVE's, APARs associated with the CVE and programs that...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enable the transmission of chained certificates through a configuration option

The current SSL processing for InetD transmits the first certificate contained in the designated certificate file. Provide an SSL configuration option for InetD, MQ, High-speed connector, etc. to also transmit any chained certificates contained in...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG: Enhance z/TPF Run Time Metrics Collection (zRTMC) Starter Kit to use Redhat Podman instead of Redhat Docker

Redhat is not supporting Docker in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8. It is replacing it with Podman. Docker is only supported below version RHEL 8. The z/TPF Run Time Metrics Collection (zRTMC) Starter Kit uses Docker but not Podman thus ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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