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z/TPF

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inefficient dump viewer process

Improve dump view function when viewing all dumps The user had requested to view all dumps in the dump viewer. In looking at the IP trace, this process is horribly inefficient. TPFis only sending back 78 byte datagrams. In this example, TPF had se...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Need new options to prevent dumps from taking too long

If a dump takes a long time to process this represents an effective "outage" to work as all i/streams are perched. Common impacts are that OSA polling may not be possible or may not occur frequently enough while the dump is being taken so OSA buff...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Datax user exit should be called more consistently for NODUMPS

Currently datax user exit is only called if we have NODUPL set and the dump is in the duplicate dump table or this dump should be taken but MAXOPR dumps have been reached this minute so we're going to NODUMP. In other cases (ZIDOT SUPPRESS, DBAOPR...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF REST Producer Multi Version Support

1. The introduction of z/TPF REST Producer Services at both Travelport and Delta Air Lines has revealed the need for Multi Version Support (MVS) support. 2. That is the need is to support multiple Major, Minor, and Patch Version combinations of a ...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

mymalloc support

Reduce performance impact when an ECB obtains a large number of ECB heap buffers. Typically, the issue exists when an ECB obtains a large number of ECB heap buffers that have a small size such as 16 or 24 bytes. An API is needed for the user to ob...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Prpoposed header modifications for High Speed Connector

We are proposing an enhancement to the HSC where the user can optionally specify a user HSC header to be used to control HSC TCP communications between TPF and an external host. This suggestion is modeled on the c function activate_on_receipt_of_T...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Java support on zTPF

Need support to run standard Java (as used on zLinux) on the zTPF platform
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

stack validation

Customer is asking for stack validation.One thought may be to consider stack validation as part of C function trace. The concern here is the overhead. Thinking we want to keep C function trace as slim as possible. Another thoughts may be to have s...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enable builtin optimization for sprintf() APIs

Currently the GCC compiler has –fno-builtin-sprintf enabled in the maketpf rules parameter file. This was introduced as a workaround for a bug in the GCC compiler in 2004, that bug was closed by GCC in 2005 (see bugzilla report: https://gcc.gnu.or...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Enable builtin optimization for isdigit() API

Proposal: Currently the GCC compiler has –fno-builtin-isdigit enabled in the maketpf rules parameter file. This was introduced as a workaround for a bug in the GCC compiler in 2004, that bug was closed by GCC in 2005 (see bugzilla report: https://...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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