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    See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

    Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

    Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

    Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
    2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

    Move the Workload Global Table Array (WGTA) above the 2Gb bar

    As the system use grows the WGTA keeps getting bigger and since this is in 31 bit addressable memory below the 2Gb bar at some point we will either have to either sacrifice some other use of 31 bit memory or move it above the bar. This is somewhat...
    7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

    zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

    As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
    almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

    more configurable BIND module for program level parameters

    * BIND dynamically * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** The actual bind module parameters are staticly defined in the environment file. This doesn't allows set parameters by DBRM files. There should be a bind instruction file w...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 3 Not under consideration

    Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

    Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
    over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

    ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

    ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

    Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

    In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
    about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

    PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
    almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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