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Status Delivered
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 23, 2013

ZNKEY OSABUFF enhancement

The customer Travelport is asking that the znkey OSAbuff display
detail the number of buffer that were used from 31 to 64. Currently the display is only detailing inuse buffers for 0-31 . In would also be nice to have a indication of how many times there were no buffers available to process messages.

Here an example of the current display

ZNKEY OSABUFF

"NKEY0023I 14.41.07 CPUID C

"OSABUFF - 0064

">



'*********************************************************************

ZOSAE BUFFER OSA-OSAPPREC

"OSAE0013I 14.42.03 READ BUFFER USAGE FOR OSA-OSAPPREC

" BUFFERS INSTANCES BUFFERS INSTANCES

" ------- ------------- ------- -------------

" 0 1 524 015 259 16 12

" 1 968 351 257 17 21

" 2 1 001 794 18 25

" 3 103 642 19 14

" 4 11 786 20 13

" 5 1 522 21 12

" 6 284 22 21

" 7 68 23 17

" 8 35 24 18

" 9 15 25 14

" 10 19 26 12

" 11 5 27 13

" 12 8 28 29

" 13 11 29 21

" 14 17 30 15

" 15 8 31 16

" GREATER THAN 31 433

"END OF DISPLAY

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/TPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF

  • Guest
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    Aug 4, 2014

    This is available with PJ42415 on z/TPF PUT11.

  • Guest
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    Feb 19, 2014

    In plan - IBM intends to do this within 1 year.

  • Guest
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    Feb 12, 2014

    when will this be available?

  • Guest
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    Jan 13, 2014

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF
    Component - z/TPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF
    Component - Runtime