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z/TPF Software Profiler

IBM Software : Host Transaction Processing : z/TPF : Software Profiler The z/TPF Software Profiler is a performance measurement tool.

You must be a z/TPF customer to download this tool.

The z/TPF Software Profiler provides the ability to understand the performance characteristics of your z/TPF application and system software. There are five tools provided by the TPF Software Profiler:

  1. External Interrupt analysis is a time sampling tool which identifies routines that are frequently executed
  2. Entry Analysis is a tool which collects ECB trace information about requested ECBs
  3. Macro Analysis is a tool which samples system service calls
  4. Page Range references is a tool to identify whether programs are accessing specific areas of memory
  5. Resource Consumption is a tool which samples ECB resource information at exit time.

Last update: 29 October 2007
PUT 4 download added. Cumulative file updated.

 Version  Platform  Language
1.1  z/TPF 1.1 GA US English
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Click Login to sign in to the z/TPF server, then click Back on your browser to return to this page and click on the "Download Now" links.

For new users to become current up to the latest released PUT level, first download and install the GA/PUT00 file, then download and install the Cumulative update file. Once you are logged in individual APARs are available for download using the links in the APAR download table below.

Level Size
(bytes)
Updated Download link
Software Profiler Cumulative updates 86809 29 October 2007 Download Now
Software Profiler GA/PUT00 source 139931 27 Sept 2005 Download Now
Software Profiler PUT01 updates 28551 25 Nov 2005 Download Now
Software Profiler PUT02 updates 35377 26 May 2006 Download Now
Software Profiler PUT03 updates 27907 17 January 2007 Download Now
Software Profiler PUT04 updates 83304 29 October 2007 Download Now

To view maintenance writeups for the Software Profiler click on the APAR number to display the writeup (APEDIT) for the APAR.

To download the maintenance for these APARs:

  1. Login to your z/TPF ID, then click Back on your browser to ret urn to this page and
  2. Click on the "Download Now" link under an APAR number and use SaveAs to save the tar file on your workstation.
Note that the download link at the end of the APEDIT accesses a tar file containing only the APEDIT.

  Individual Software Profiler APAR Maintenance
  last updated: 5/7/2008
APAR NumberPUTAbstract
PJ32014 4 ZTRAP offline support for general tape or file system file.
PJ31286 3 CALCULATION OF ECB'S COPY-ON-WRITE COUNT IS WRONG
PJ30953 2 SOFTWARE PROFILER UNDATES TO SUPPORT TPF SCRT FUNCTION
PJ30614 2 With APAR PJ30414 applied, CCTRAP.ASM does not assemble.
PJ30354 1 OPR-4 out of CTRP when ZTRAP stops.
PJ30327 1 ZTRAP MA process does not account for library linkage.

z/TPF Software Profiler TPFUG Spring 2005
z/TPF Family Libraries System Performance and Measurement Reference

Note: To view and print the PDF files, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software, which is available for free from the Adobe Web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .