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Reduce CDC interval frequency limit

Currently the CDC minimum collection interval is5 seconds. If this could be reduced ( perhaps to 1 second), more granular data would be available. this data would be more useful for problem diagnosis, as well as provide better tivoli monitoring au...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

TOS: Blocking Selected Commands from the Command List

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. Another RFE, 33848, was cr...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide Usage statistics for TPF Toolkit and Debugger

We would like to keep usage statistics of how many developers are using TPF Toolkit. It would be helpful to have a system log kept that would be updated with the users name when opening Toolkit.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

z/TPF Toolkit - Selective activation of loadset by IP address

Feature 1: Selective activation of loadset by IP address Feature 2:With feature 1, allow debugging of ECB launched from Toolkit.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

For TOS, Provide a Recall Commands Expiration Period

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. We would like the command ...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Recoup short term pool loop detection

We are not using the TLC= parameter and have encountered performance mpacts in three of our zTPF systems, during recoup chain chase, whenshort term pools are chained to each other.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Continuous Data Collection - Include session values for SWISC IMMEDIATE requests in the routed entries per sec.

Include session values for SWISC IMMEDIATE requests in the routed entries per sec.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Not under consideration

Remove the need for the TOS server to connect back to a port on the TOS client.

TPF Operations Client Server interface connects to the server at tcp/ip port 10001 (configurable) and the server connects back to a tcp/ip port on the client between 1024 and 5000. Requirement is to remove the need for the server to connect back t...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Trigger Interval Parameter for zTPF MQ Manager

Provide the ability to define a Trigger Interval (TRIGINT) for the IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager in z/TPF. This feature allows z/TPF to alleviate problems related to trigger type FIRST which is currently only activated when the queue starts out e...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Add tape VSN in TSIO message

The customer has automation in place to sent informational message to individuals when a tape CC3 I/O type of error occurs. It would be helpful if that message included the tape VSN that was mounted on the drive to be included in themessage prefix...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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