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z/TPF Product Family

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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.
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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 ...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Performance issue with HTTP_Client_Sync_Send() api

Performance tests for a new application using the HTTP_Client_Sync_Send function shows that 42% of the CPU cycles are consumed by the SSL_load_error_strings function in CSSL.This overhead is unecessary because our application is not using the SSL ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

SWB allocated above the 2gig bar

With the increased usage of MQ and SWB usage , more SWB are needed but space is limited to below the 2gig Bar. This request is to expand SWB's to above the 2gog bar.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enable the use of MySQL for RTMC without the need for a MariaDB database

The tpfrtmc package uses MariaDB as the database for storing data received from TPF. Many users have existing MySQL installations which can be leveraged for this use and can thus avoid needing to stand up a special 'RTMC only' database and all of ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

Data reduction should be moved to Linux

The offline data reduction program DATAREAD is currently writtein in PL/1 and must be built/run on zOS. IBM should rewrite it and move it to Linux.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 3 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 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Option to Chain Chase both Prime/Dupe Copies of records in a Duplex environment

New functionality to force Recoup to chain chase both prime/dupe copies of records during Phase 1 and do a comparison of record header content to flag inconsistencies.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Need Prime Dupe Compare Tool

We recently had a Prime/Dupe mismatch problem in our FOS production system. We were identifying problem the addresses as dumps surfaced, and/or had to find them manually.Because we only have 2 arrays on that system, we were finally able to determi...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered