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MQ SVRCONN long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Acceptance" of loadset containing "C" Library Component CTAL

MQ SVRCONN long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Acceptance of loadset containing "C" Library Component CTAL 1. The Travelport z/TPF Complex has distributed servers which connect to the z/TPF MQ Server using the MQ Client. 2. These generally support l...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF MQ Client cannot control local address

z/TPF MQ Client today will default ie the client will bind to the default IP. The customers is request an option to control the local address
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Raise cylinder limitation for 3390 devices

Enable support of >64K cylinders for 3390 devices.
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Online warning message for RLOG records

Customer is ask for an online warning message when RLOG records reach 75% full in order to prevent the system from going catastrophic with a C117 dump.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow configurable data header use in the High Speed Connector

Allow configurable data/transport protocol header use in the High Speed Connector. Possible solutions could entail a configuration in the endpoint group xml file. Or could provide User Exit in the High Speed Connector to manipulate the stream to t...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide ability to set and enforce a limit to the number of concurrent LP ECBs

There are tuning (core allocation and shutdown threshold level) implications to running large numbers of LP ECBs. A customer really needs to determine a max number of LP ECBs they will allow to run concurrently. If tuning values are set based on a...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

RANGE functionality for CRUISE

The CRUISE package currently provides controls to govern the number of concurrent ECBs the utility is allowed to run with. During this year's Herndon stress test we observed that despite increasing the number of concurrent ECBs for the utility, ru...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Add support for CDC_TPFDF to RTMC

Real-time runtime metrics collection supports multiple CDC data types but currently does not support CDC_TPFDF. Requesting CDC_TPFDF be added to the CDC data types supported by RTMC, i.e. DBOPN, DBADD, DBRED, DBDEL + 3 additional user metrics, by ...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Low Priority PDU Control Option

PDU control option to run as low priority by default vs. prefixing PDU functional entries.
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Data reduction should be moved to Linux

The offline data reduction program DATAREAD is currently writtein in PL/1 and must be built/run on zOS. IBM should rewrite it and move it to Linux.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Delivered