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Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IBM Case TS017276945 - TPF Queue Manager MQ Channels using MVIPA do not maintain MQ Message Sequence Number when the active CPU changes resulting in error MQSC0347E "Channel Stopped Because of Message Sequence Errors". This puts TPF MQ at a distinct disadvantage

ISSUE: Travelport uses Moveable VIPA (MVIPA) in MQ to provide a floating IP to the TPF Queue Manager on any CPU (a single Redundant connection point for the Remote End). This serves as TPF's equivalent of High Availability (HA) which is available ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Improve SuperSession security at Logon with PassPhrases

This is to fix 2 Security issues with SuperSession:1- When using PassPhrases at Logon, the reaction is different depending on if the UserID exist or not. This allows someone to try all possible UserIDs and find the list of existing ones.2- When Lo...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Add support for signal shutdown in TPF under VM

Enable the system to receive interrupts from the service processor Set a bit on in Control Reg 0 Issue a SERVC instruction defining a small area in memory for the service processor to communicate to TPF Act on the receipt of the Ext 2401 interrupt...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

IBM MQ Configuration file for SSL to support multiple ciphers

We use a common default MQ SSL Configuration file for all our MQ SSL channels. The IBM limitation is that the MQ configuration file can only have one cipher defined, unlike the HTTP & MONGO SSL Configuration files that support the definition o...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

User Customizable ATTN key handling

Default handling of the ATTN key requires two presses of the key to pass ATTN through to the application. We would like this to be an option, possibly in the global profile, to be able to set the default action to allow the first press of ATTN to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add visibility when a panel has a syntax error

When a panel has a syntax error, in TLVLOG we see messages KLKDM1* on the first time the panel was called, but that can be hours after the STC started, so it goes undetected. Is there a way to make such errors more visible ? For example, if these ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Requesting a native batch job method to run the CL/SS NTD DIALOG commands with reporting capability

I can issue a system console command to run the NTD DIALOG , or even set up a batch job to run an IEFBR14 to run the system command, to run the NTD DIALOG, but is there a way to set up a batch job (JCL) that directly runs a CL/SS NTD DIALOG ?
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration