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My ideas: TPF Toolkit

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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...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

z/TPF Program Analysis Tool

Headline: Program Analysis Tool 2. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Citibank, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire an implementation desire a Progra...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Notify user when large files are corrupted by RSE

On occasion, RSE may corrupt or partially write out large files. Could RSE be enhanced such that, after a file transfer is complete, it performs a checksum on both sides, compares the result, and if corruption is detected, notify the user.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Wizard to import RSE connection definitions, Debug profiles, projects, etc from an old workspace directory.

A lot of user set up is contained in a workspace, it is desirable to be able to import configurations from old workspaces.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views to have a right click "copy block contents to clipboard" action.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Clean up after search

After doing a search, when deleting results from the "Search" view, the last search result is always left behind
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy and paste a path into the edit source lookup

Edit source lookup for remote folder is a "graphical interface" (i.e. a browse tree) at the moment... want a way to enter a remote folder as a path (i.e. need a text field)
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Debugger Callback Issue

Toolkit Debugger callback (TPF test system doing a call back to user desktop running Debugger) is causing conflicts with DXC corporate security policies. I would like to ask IBM to evaluate alternatives in order to avoid costly workarounds for users.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration