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Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

Optimize tagged heap lookup service routine.

Currently tpf_eheap_tag() and tpf_eheap_locate() are convenient APIs to retrieve heap buffer addresses across an ECB's lifetime. The tpf_eheap_locate() service routine in the CP executes a sequential search through all heap buffers until the provi...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

Extend message "OLDR3024W name – GROUP NAME groupname IN LOADSET lsname DOES NOT EXIST – TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID" with the name of the file

I have a loadset with about 300 files and receive during the zoldr load the following warning message: OLDR3024W 00.42.50 CLDZ - GROUP NAME tpfdfl IN LOADSET Z77167 DOES NOT EXIST - TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID^ It's hard to check all the comp...
8 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

(TPFUG) Enable CSV Serialization using DFDL

There is current functionality to create documents from a CSV formatted data stream using DFDL. There is not the inverse functionality. We are currently receiving a number of CSV files which require code to be written to parse the data into a form...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

Add user exit to the ZCPYS zFunction command code to allow the user to set global/switches for utilities active

By inserting a USER EXIT prior to ( and following ) activating a ZCPYS FC FLASH or ZPCYS SGC BACKUP, we can check to ensure that there are no other system critical utilities that are running that may be impacted by the resource intensive Flash/SGC...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

(TPFUG) Create new DFDL function to release memory when building or parsing while using DFDL APIs

Create function(s) to release memory following the invocation of DFDL APIs. This would alleviate memory leaks when calling the APIs multiple times.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to create a consolidated view of Migration Considerations for a user defined batch of APARs

Understanding migration considerations is a critical part of installing APARs. Each APEDIT has a MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS section for IBM to document various APAR impacts including: Functional automation and operation changes, API changes, SIP imp...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

Multi-Thread ZPOOL INIT Entries

Currently the ZPOOL INIT functions are single threaded, and there is a real need for these functions to be mult-threaded. The multi-threaded logic currently runs in seconds(production) and minutes in Native and VPARS. The current IBM logic runs fo...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

Provide the CE3TRNAME in the heap information in dumps

Currently IEHTT_PROG_NAME is not written to the tape at dump time. This information could be useful in identifying heap obtained by libraries e.g CPP1. Without this information it is hard to determine what programs obtained heap as these nodes are...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF Delivered

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