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z/TPF Product Family

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Allow packing of an entire file or parts of a file by ZUDFM PACK ID command.

z/TPFDF provides 2 ways to PACK subfiles: 1)ZUDFM PACK can pack a currently linked subfile only. In order to pack an entire file all contained file addresses needed to be linked via ZUDFM ACC or FAD followed by ZUDFM PACK command. 2)CRUISE provide...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Request to provide expiring MQ message user exit.

Currently, when am MQ message expires, the message is simply deleted. There is no visibility to the expiry event. If a user exit was available, a decision to extend the expiry time could be made or at a minimum, logging the message that was expiri...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase SIP field MXRECID in DATACO macro to allow for greater than 500.

DATACO (SIP macro) allows RECID be the number between 2 and 500. We need to increase the maxrecid in PSS to 1500 but SIP only allows for 500. Can this be increased? We would like to update this value in SIP to match the online value.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

zimag path information

It would be useful if the zimag display could should the path information for keypoints and CIMR components that are loaded onto the z/TPF complex. The reason for the request is to get to a common image base that can be loaded/ built across multip...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

CCSONP - NO DISPENSE IF MOD PAIR (or Mod) TOO BUSY

It's been years since “ALL” TPF MOD PAIRs (P&D) have produced the same performance and this disparity is getting worse with FICON; due to multiple device activity per channel, hundreds of devices per frame, tens of channels per CPU and tens of...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 72 Not under consideration

ZDDMP EXPORT option

SNCF company use TPF DUMP VIEWER on TOOKIT.We use ZDDMP package to capture dumps.In this package, we have IMPORT option but no EXPORT option to send the dumps to another remote server.Is it possible to create this EXPORT option ?Thanks.Best regards.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

TPFDF Cruise Verify should give number of items per Lrec Id

Today the CRUISE VERIFY utility gives the total number of ITEMS.We would appreciate to have also the number of items for each Lrec id.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

ACTIVATE THE DUMP VIEWER FROM FILE SAVED ON A REMOTE SERVER

Allow viewing a dump captured by the dump viewer stored on a remote server. It should be possible to select the dump by browsing an index or a list of files from the RSE. It should be also possible to load and activate the TPFdebug perspective wit...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Lrec ID data collection

TPFDF needs to collect statistics on the access/updates by Lrec id for a given file. These stats do not need to be collected for all files.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

Display File Pool Status

Today to have a status of the pool directories we have the following entries:ZDFPC for the count and the current directory.ZRECP DISPLAY POOL for the directory ranges.For a complete view of all the sections we need a lot of entries and we can not ...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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