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Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow High-Speed Connector to function in CRAS state or above

RTMC uses the high-speed connector to send data to the off-host Linux listener. Since RTMC is the new way to send performance data, and eventually user data, we do have a need to know what the system is doing in all states.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

ZFILE json display

As JSON config files are being added to the TPF system, it will be beneficial to have a "pretty json" display available for the TPF file system, where files are encoded in ascii. For example - the configs for ZMATC are json and used to modify the ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZMATC enhancements to modify config files

Introduce a new MODIFY parameter to the ZMATC command such as: ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname VALUE-"value string" ZMATC MODIFY FILE-filename FIELD-fieldname REMOVE This command would have the following behaviors: It would modify the s...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would b...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

TOS Gui: add ability to save and restore sessions and screen locations.

Everytime a user opens the TOS Gui, they have to open and arrange all of their desired sessions. This is time consuming and repetitive, especially in a 7x24 environment when tpf operators start their shift. Enhance the TOS Gui to be able to save o...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Add etos.exe port information to the TOS Gui

The TOS gui includes fields for ETOS.exe's IP address and host port, but not ETOS.exe's port. Adding this field would display all of the connection information for each gui session.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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