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Exclude internal CISO function calls from the C function trace

Some CISO functions such as sprintf and snprintf are complex applications in their own right with many internal function calls that are of little interest to most programmers. This request is to remove such calls from the C function trace, or at t...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect and APIs: Provide support for z/TPF services

z/OS Connect and APIs: Provide support for z/TPF services Enable z/TPF as a service provider for z/OS Connect and APIs. Provide support for z/TPF in z/OS Connect, so z/TPF services can be invoked as APIs, with all the benefits of the APIs (catalog...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Need to access peer certificate in shared-SSL session

We are converting a fairly large network from regular IP sockets to TLS1.2 sockets. We will be using INETD shared-SSL support for these connections. Our security department has a requirement to perform additional checks against the client certific...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

An entry to display the in-core URL program mapping table

Recently we had cause to load a new url program mapping table. The notification that a newtable had been loaded into core: CHTT0030I hh.mm.ss HTTP SERVER URL-PROGRAM MAPPING FILE REFRESHED had been missed and manual entries to REFRESH the table of...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

glibc updates need to made to allow -march=z10 or z196 to utilze built-in mem fucntions

Prior to PJ43654, memcpy calls were optimized away to use built-ins. IBM have not provided glibc updates that allow use of built-ins for -march=z10 or z196. Consequently, when PJ43654 is applied which changes the GCC 4.6 -march= default to z10, li...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Dump viewer reading dumps

Currently today the customer is unable to view a dump from a processor if it's not active in the complex. If a user has his debug connection to cpua and is trying to debug a dump that happened on cpuc. .The system that took the dump needs to be ac...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Certify newest Dignus compilers: v2.25

Our Developers have a requirement to start using the Dignus v2.25 compilers. We need to have these certified by the TPF Lab so they can start using the latest features of C and C++.
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Functional entry to display system heap by token name

New functional entry to display system heap with a token name
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Delivered

Add connect timeouts to HSC parameters

The current connect timeout for High Speed connector is a multiplier of syncTimeout attribute in the endpoint descriptor file. The current SSL connect timeout (i.e. time to finish SSL negotiation) is hardcoded at 1 second. We are requesting that t...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

ZDECB TR to display ECB heap trace

IBM documentation (Library>Trace tables>ECB heap trace tables) refers the reader to the ZDECB TR entry to display the trace of system heap calls for the current ECB.However ZDECB TR doesn't have such an option but it sounds like a useful fea...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered