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z/TPF Product Family

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Move TYPE=DATA programs from C-O-W to normal CRPA program area

Currently all TYPE=DATA programs are allocated by default in the C-O-W program area but the majority are never updated.Better to allocate these programs in the normal CRPA area which offers some protection against core corruption and does not attr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase the number of format-1 SYNCC globals

Our system now uses 254 SYNCC global fields. I believe the maximum is 255. Will you be able to support greater than 255 format-1 SYNCC globalfields and/or records? Format-2 global is avialble in z/TPF but Applications keeps asking for more format-...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

VFA lost after some ZAPAT add entries

VFA lost during Softipl afer a couple of ZAPAT add entries. We analyzedthat the system limits 100 ZAPAT ADD entries as defined in ipat.mak andthe system prevents to add more. During investigation we found severalerrors in handling these spare entr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

MQ Receive user exit

The customer typically uses the CDCSVRCHL SVRCONN channel to monitor system usage using the Tivoli CDC client but realize that any workstation with MQ client software installed can connect to CDCSVRCHL and MQGET/MQPUT to any queue.  Is there a pre...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ITM for z/TPF - Linux Support

ITM for z/TPF currently only runs on Windows and Marriott would like for this to run on z/Linux.
about 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ZTPLF allow assignment category

This eases the removal of numerous local mods we have regarding management of VTS tape categories. ZTPLF FILL and ZTPLF LOAD commands require a tape category to obtain a tape (in this case scratch tapes). I would these commands to optionally accep...
14 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Support user defined metrics in the NVPC feed for RTMC (TPFUG/Visa)

Only IBM defined metrics are currently supported in the NVPC feed. These metrics are ECB specific. We have a homegrown tool that provides a one-dimensional view of NVPC type data and user defined counters that are sent as part of that homegrown fe...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

RTMC file ID support

Problem statement: Real-time runtime metrics collection support reports finds and file counts. But you can't tell which files are being accessed by a message, which files are being accessed more/less over time on the system or by a specific messag...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need better diagnostics when running out of IPMT's

We seem to be seeing more and more SNAP 7805 dumps where we are running out of IPMT's. We would like to see more diagnostic information when we get this which could include the top 10 users of IPMT's in the system at the time of the dump and the n...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Multi-Processing WAIT/POST

TPFUG_Req_Number: REQI616Contact Originator Id: Andy FrithAbstract: The current implementation of 'EVENT/POST' logic within TPF only allows for processing within one Central Electronic Complex (CEC) and not within a Multi-Processing Complex.Descri...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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