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TPF Toolkit

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Add Vertical Bar to Toolkit 4.6 LPEX Editor

In TK 4.2 there is a vertical bar showing the continuation column when editing a .asm program. This is controlled from Preferences >> HLAsm Parser >> Margins (must select "Show Margins" and "Enable Margins"). TK 4.6 removes this featur...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

Application performance analysis tooling

Performance analysis (run-time) tools are required to identify performance bottlenecks & other critical statistics early in the software development life cycle where they are cheaper to find & fix. They help developers tune an application ...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Requesting Toolkit 4.6 Search Capabilities (similar to 4.2)

This is a request for supporting SEARCH capabilities in Toolkit 4.6 in a similar fashion to RSE in Toolkit 4.2.
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Request to IBM to secure all Toolkit to TPF Connections

TPF Toolkit is using unsecured protocols to communicate with z/TPF. Specifically FTP. We are requesting that this protocol be changed to Secure FTP.
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

Deliver TPF Toolkit updates via .zip file

1. Deliver a full, completed Toolkit product via a .zip file. Remove the need to use Oomph, and remove the need to "pull" software from opensource web sites. 2. Deliver updates to the Toolkit product via periodic .zip files containing a full produ...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

z/TPF Automated Unit Testing

TVPT DL , Amex, SABRE 2. Headline: Automated Unit Testing 3. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 4. Date 2018-04-26 5. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Amex, Delta, and SABRE, desire the ability to develop u...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

TPF Toolkit 4.2 support on Windows 10

Support TPF Toolkit 4.2 on windows 10
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

DFDL gen support in maketpf

In order to generate DFDL files when building TPF Toolkit projects, I'd like to propose a few additions to DFDL support in maketpf.This would make the DFDL support avaiable much like the support to generate XML files.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Toolkit project delete wizard for customized deletion of project data

The suggestion here is for the TPF Project Navigator to provide a wizard to delete all physical files or a customized selection based on the file type..The TPF Project Navigator contains the list of the users projects and is the main interface for...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Trace log analysis by file address or record id

Enhance trace log analysis to have a file address or record id table by program names. This helps discovery applications that are performing multiple reads on the same file.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered