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z/TPF Product Family

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ZTPF TS7700 Support - ZTPLF LOAD - Optional input parm of tape name

HPE would like a new optional parameter added to the ZTPLF LOAD entry that would identify the tape name that the loaded volume will become via the follow-up entry ZTMNT.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Support Apache V2.4+

Apache 2.4+ is out, and 2.2+ will be out of service by 12/31/17. The Apache HTTP Server Project will only provide maintenance releases of the 2.2.x flavor through June of 2017, and may provide some security patches beyond this date through at leas...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IPtrace output.

Customer is requesting an option when post processing IPtrace to include both the EBCDIC and ASCII side by side on the same report. Today it lets them request either EBCDIC or ASCII
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support PKCS-PAD option for zTPF Encryption/Decryption APIs

Support PKCS-PAD option for zTPF Encryption/Decryption APIs so zTPF can share encrypted data with z/OS.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow ZOSAE modification without network down

When attempting to change the real IP address or Gateway IP address of a primary OSA definition, the change is rejected if the alternate OSA is active. This requires a network outage to change the IP information on an OSA adapter that is already i...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF CACHE STORAGE should use Ready list completion stacking longest IO first to shortest

With HPF (HIGH PERFORMING FICON) and the CPU LOOP interactions with CACHED SOLID STATE STORAGE --- Generally speaking APPs on activation will (likely) incur a cache miss which is slightly longer than a CACHE HIT. At any given time there can be a n...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Command to reset the stats on MQ queues and channels

A Command is needed reset the stats on queues and channels
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support UTF-EBCDIC in the B2B Parser for JSON and SOAP

Recently UTF-EBCDIC was added functionality for the B2B Parser which has been very helpful. We recently determined that JSON and SOAP was not included in that support. We would like JSON and SOAP to be included in the support included under the B2...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to skip adding data to offline IP trace capture

Today we can specify the IP trace capture size for a specific applname in the Network Services Database. This will override the system level trace size. However the minimum size that can be specified is 8 bytes. This 8 bytes is of data, on top of ...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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