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Defining separate VLAN for primary and alternate

When defining an OSA1PRIM/OSA1ALT redundant pair of interfaces, the VLAN tag defined for the Primary is forced on the Alternate when an interface failover takes place. We don’t believe this is correct if these interfaces are not part of an LACP ag...
9 months 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...
about 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

(TPFUG) > 2042 TOD support - New APIs to assist in remediation strategies

The STCK/STCKF 8 byte format TOD will wrap in 2042. To help customers remediate issues in their code as early as possible and to avoid customers writing additional code that subsequently needs remediation, we would like IBM to provide new datatype...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need tool that allows for manual merging of 3 files creating a new 4th file

As a developer, when there is source contention on a file, a tool is needed to help resolve that contention by generating a new file containing the differences manually selected by the developer. A tool is needed that will assist in resolving cont...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF business event APIs to query status and info about active events and dispatch adapters

1. Provide zEV API returning the zEV Names of all Deployed and Active z/TPF zEVents 2. A customer written z/TPF program will call the API every "n" minutes to get a list of all deployed and active z/TPF Business Eventing Facility (zEV) Named Event...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support generating a compiler warning if iostream is included in a build

With GCC 7, including iostream results in a global object being instantiated regardless of whether it is actually used. This drives substantial (approx 5% measured) overhead at runtime. GCC 4.6 included a specific mod to defer instantiation until ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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

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

Enhanced JAM recycle after activation number change

Currently any activation number change requires to recycle the JAMs. Without JAM recycle loadset cannot be accepted and deleted. In case of multiple loadset load (even these which are not related to JAM's work) it is required to either multiple re...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered