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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.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Enhancing RTMC NVP collection in tpfrtmc to extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data would enable examination of the underlying distributions for better insights that simple averages would hide.

During RTMC NVP collection the tpfrtmc component could extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data, which would include the following: ECB lifetime CPU burn time Finds Files Etc. This would enable examination of the underlying distribut...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

VFAFILL=NO support for more macros

The new parameter VFAFILL of the macro FINDC (apar PJ46019) is a very good thing for the RECOUP. We would like to use it on some of our processes but it only exists for the FINDC macro. Could you provide us with the VFAFILL parameter on the other ...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Add Kafka Headers to the DefaultPublishHandler Interface

We'd like to see the DefaultPublishHandler provided in PJ45923: Guaranteed Delivery Support for JVM Services, to be enhanced to include support for Kafka Headers. Currently the interface only supports the Key and Data related to the Kafka message....
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Provide Activate on Accept for Shared SSL model

This is very similar to the GSS-API model.The SSL Certificate can be used to validate the end user accessing z/TPF. SSL_ctx_set_verify with SSL_verify_peer. An SSL_new and SSL_fd with SSL_Accept we wait until something comes in on the socket with ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

z/TPF Large MQ Message Support

1. Mainstream MQ from the IBM Hursley Lab supports up to 100 MByte Messages in both the server and client implementations. 2. The z/TPF version of MQ supports up to 4 MByte Messages. 3. Z/Systems Hardware Compression is not available on z/Systems ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

z/TPF ETIM System Profiler enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance ETIM System Profiler report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions by I-Stream such as: i. Compression i. Compression ii. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP ii...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

ECB Heap Statistics

We found a way to get ECB Heap statistics from the ECB Heap Control Table (EHTC). This requires minor changes to CLHH (CCSTOR) and CMALOC (CTIS). We would like the lab to consider adopting this change. At exit time, looping through EHCT Entries, w...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release