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As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Make CP22 APAR PH44215 (new back chain validation) configurable by new CRUISE Table parameter.

CP22 APAR PH44215 included new back chain validation where the backward chain in the prime should now be the last in chain. Full backward chain validation is also in play with PH44215.We ran into some old/legacy databases that were created before ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Improve recoup performance for wide z/TPFDF indexed databases

TPFDF to support > 4 billion fixed file ordinals
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

DB0101 dump should contain pointer to bad lrec

In production we most often run with no macro or system traces active. Would request that DB0101 dumps either contain some register which is addressing the LREC which has an invalid length, or even update SW00REC with a pointer to the bad LREC.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

TPFDF CRUISE on a Shadow image via FDRSC macro

The TPF FDRSC macro allows to read a TPF record from a Shadow Image (HDS snapshot image). We would like a way to use FDRSC with the CRUISE utility. A new parameter has to be added at ZFCRU SETUP level to specify the Shadow Image name and the FINWC...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 4 Delivered

RANGE functionality for CRUISE

The CRUISE package currently provides controls to govern the number of concurrent ECBs the utility is allowed to run with. During this year's Herndon stress test we observed that despite increasing the number of concurrent ECBs for the utility, ru...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Log F/A of records with STDAUT bits in use

We would like an update to CRUISE and RECOUP to report file addresses that have STDAUT reserved bits in use. Perhaps they could be reported as a software error (similar to what was done for Encryption with RECOUP) or maybe written to a file in the...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

ZUDFM INIT with SSU-ALL option

When we use ZUDFM INIT on a record subsystem user unique, we need to do a command per subsytem. And as now we use the 'file' parameter that uses a different tape each time.Could you provide a SSU-ALL option for ZUDFM INIT like for ZFCRU command ?
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

NoSQL Access to z/TPF TPFDF Databases - 2016 Enhancements

Enhance NoSQL z/TPF server product to provide additional features to retrieve information from a z/TPFDF database within a z/TPF system.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

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