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• TPF Software – Overview
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Binary Editor
Remote Scripts
zTREX
Add-Ins & Project Integration with Source Control
Manager (American Express)
• American Express Customer Experiences
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Focused over the past year on customer requests
Worked closely with customers
 Via weekly status meetings
 Understanding customer needs & priorities
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Worked with
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JAL
Marriott
SABRE
American Express
Wells Fargo
Listening to customers:
 Benefits other customers who can also make use of new features
 Improves the product
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Requested by American
Express
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Uses the same Editor area
as the Text Editor
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View & edit binary files in
 Hex
 Characters
 Both Hex & Characters
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Includes standard editor
features, such as:
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Cut/Copy/Paste
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Undo/Redo
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Synchronization between
Hex and Characters
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Find/Replace
Flexible ruler options
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Remote Scripts
 Scripts that are invoked on a Remote
System
 Can be invoked directly from zTPFGI
from Host File View or Projects View
 Invoked by User Exits in
Compile/Build/Load process and also
from Debugger
 Can be executed on Linux or VM
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Remote Script Utilities
 Furnished Utilities with zTPFGI
 Functions include:
– Display a Dialog Screen to ask
Questions from User
– Ask for Password of another
system
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– Request a File to be open
– Send a Message to zTPFGI Output
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– Send a Pop-Up Message to zTPFGI
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Invoking a Script directly from zTPFGI
 Right click on Host File View
 ZGI Command Terminal
– Rules indicate what Systems,
Directories, and Files allow Script
– Terminal available when connected
to a system
– Installations Script is invoked via
"pass through" of zTPFGI Interface
to Remote System
– All above Functions available
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– Messages to/from Connected System
from Remote Script
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User Exits
 Linux File System
– Initial Connection
– (Useful to mount disks from another
system)
 Compile/Build/Load
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Start Process
Setting Environment Variables
Starting and End of maketpf/loadtpf
End of Process
 System Errors during Debugging
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• z/TPF applications that use
too many resources degrade
system performance, but it’s
difficult to locate the problem
• zTREX – Transaction
Recording & Examination for
z/TPF
 Record, Compare & Analyze
transaction resource usage
data
 Pinpoint the source of the
problem within a transaction
 Compare similar transactions
after changes to programs to
identify changes in resource
usage
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How much resource usage
lies below the surface of
this z/TPF application?
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CPU cycles
Pool gets and releases
Files and Finds
Tape resources
Etc?
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• Control activation of zTREX data
collection in zTPFGI
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Summary data only
Program data only
Summary & Program data
Whether or not to include
Instruction Counts
• After activating zTREX, run a
transaction
• Results can be viewed in zTREX
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 Program Entry Counts
 Last Program Entered
 Last Object Entered
 CPU Usage Time
 Total Macro Counts
 Instruction Counts
 Function Call Counts
 DF Call Counts
 Tape Read/Write Counts
 4K/1M Frame Counts
 Pool Get/Release Counts
 Detailed Pool Counts
 Find Counts
 File Counts
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Select multiple transactions
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Identify differences between them
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• Select multiple ECBs
 within a transaction
 from different transactions
• Identify differences between them
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• Select multiple programs
 within an ECB
 from different ECBs
 from ECBs in different transactions
• Identify differences between them
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Allows web pages to be
displayed directly in the
zTPFGI Editor area
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Add-Ins API can be used to
embed web-based tools
directly into zTPFGI, e.g.
 Help files
 Intranets
 Existing Source Code
Management Systems
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Via Add-Ins Capability
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Scripting running in
the web-based SCM
can
 Communicate with the
zTPFGI Projects window
– Open & list projects
– Create new projects
 Open files
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Tools Rep team
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Analyzes new internal/external tools
Uses a 32-point benchmark for editor/debugger tools
Provides focal point for problem resolution
Meets weekly to report issues to TPF Software
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TPF Software timely and responsive in addressing points
of concern
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Currently have a limited number of zTPFGI licenses
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Add-ins
 SCM – American Express developed Source Control Manager.
 Project-Level Build
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For more information,
contact:
Thiru Thirupuvanam
TPF Software, Inc.
[email protected]
919-676-5501
American Express:
Les Prinsloo
[email protected]
Shawn Spence
[email protected]
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