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z/TPF Product Family

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(TPFUG) Stop counting HSC closed by remote server as an error or provide a separate counter.

Today if a HSC endpoint is using persistent SSL sockets, and the remote server closes the socket it can cause the error count to be incremented. This is noticeable when the remote system implements an inactivity timeout on the socket, and there is...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide a ZBOST STOP ISTREAM option that collapses all boosted i-streams

ZBOST STOP ISTREAM says it stops I-Stream Boost but it just immediately collapses the highest boosted i-stream number and sets the timer for the next to collapse in 1 minute. We need an option that will collapse all boosted i/streams to the CAP va...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add more information to ZSSLD DIS command for better diagnostics

Please add to the existing display information regarding the allocation of CTXes to each daemon, what daemons are supporting what ports, and a high-water mark for CTXes on each daemon. It also might be useful to display the timestamp of the oldest...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SSL Daemon - Dynamically refresh CRL/Certs when they are changed

We have a security requirement to update the CRL daily. We have a process that recycles all of the INETD services in order to bring in the latest CRL for all new connections. We have recently ran into heap issues on the SSL Daemons that forced us ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Requirement for a Capture/Restore mechanism for MQ messages

The below is a snippet from the IBM MQ documentation for z/OS. We believe this pertains to the utility that we require: However we might require this message/restore capability to operate with the QMGR Active rather than Down. Additionally we woul...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add option to disable SLOWSTART in HSC config

If HSC is used for sending multiple packet messages, network latency is high, and application timeout is set to a low value, SLOWSTART can cause the timeout value to be reached due to packet transmission halted while awaiting TCP ACK. This became ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

identify session in TOS API log items

Since the TOS workstation API log contains logging for multiple session/server connections it would be helpful if the log items would contain information that would identify the session/server like TAs and server IP addresses.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Is a defect

Include CRL pem files as part of the ZPUBK REHASH process

Early in the design of our support of SSL, we decided to combine the CA certificates into one file and use the CAFILE config parameter. We went from 3 CA certificates to 22 CA certificates, also daily we create a new CA file that is combined with ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.

CDC - include Applications-Utility-bits in RTMC-feed from Continuous-Data-Collection.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

CDC - Add volume-serial-number to "TAPE" data being reported on by Continuous-Data-Collection.

Please add the volume-serial number to the existing data currently being collected by Continuous-Data-Collection.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration