Subject: General Availability Announcement for TPX™ Session Management r5.5
On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that TPX™ Session Management (TPX) r5.5 is now available.
Designed to reduce time and simplify maintenance by utilizing wild card characters in VNODE.
Designed to minimize, if not eliminate, the risk of slot pool overflows and overloads.
Use the new z/OSMF configuration workflow to streamline and automate many of the required product configuration tasks.
Designed to aid you in quickly finding your session IDs by using the new Sessid and Filter fields.
Enter your credentials only once and let Identity Tokens take care of subsequent credential verifications during your session.
We encourage you to plan for the migration to TPX 5.5, as soon as possible, so that you can take full advantage of the features and enhancements this release has to offer.
You can download your copy of TPX r5.5 online at Support where you can also utilize the case management system. To install your product, follow the installation procedures for your product at Tech Docs. If you have any questions or require assistance, contact Support.
Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest release, our implementation services partners can help. Please contact your local account representative for more information on how they can help. To connect, learn, and share with other customers, join and participate in our TPX Community.
Additionally, TPX will be conducting the following, no cost, informational sessions in 2026:
In accordance with the Broadcom Software Maintenance Policy Handbook, please also consider this your written notification that we are discontinuing technical support for TPX 5.4 effective January 31, 2027. This will allow our development organization to more effectively focus its resources and add value to the next release of TPX. After January 31, 2027, Broadcom will continue to make self-service support available until the end of your current maintenance term.
For a list of Mainframe Education courses recommended by role, please visit the Learning Paths and select the desired product. We update courses based on functional impact as well as high-demand; therefore, courses created from previous releases may apply to the current release.
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