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z/TPF Product Family

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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...
almost 12 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 t...
almost 12 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.
over 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
over 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...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

DF12195 TPFDF ? Allow Optimistic Read Ahead

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF12195ORIGIN DATE: 10/23/2012REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT (required) TPFDF Optimistic Read Ahead – TPFDF should read the next block in chain using asynchronous FINDC as soon as the current block is read. Provide an option to control thi...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Not under consideration

MQ04015 MQSeries Provide batch size monitoring capability

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ04015Contact Originator Id: rmansell@visa.comAbstract: Provide batch size monitoring capability.Description: Provide batch size monitoring capability. This enhancement will improve system monitoring capabilities and therefore r...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Modify ZUDFM OA* to optionally 16 or 32 bytes of data

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF11194ORIGIN DATE: 11/1/2011REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT Currently the ZUDFM OA* displays 24 bytes of the selected LREC. It is desired to display 16 or 32 bytes of data to align with other TPF Core or File Record Displays. REQUIREMENT D...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

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