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z/TPF

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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...
about 5 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...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Remove 4D6 pool usage from ZMAIL STATUS entry

Each ZMAIL STATUS display requires two 4D6 pool records because it uses creates temporary data that is later deleted when the display is constructed.This became a problem after we configured our remote system monitor to poll TPF every second with ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Delivered

EDITA macro needs to be baseless

The customer is requesting that the EDITA macro be updated to support baseless coding. Which means some branches will need to be converted to jumps and a literal which needs to be referenced via a LARL.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

password issue when using the debug

When testers don't save their passwords to the various z/linux machines in toolkit. When they drill down thru the RSE to a file, the system will pop up a screen and ask them for their password, which they can fill in at that time and it will open ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 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 ...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Memory below the 2 gig bar.

Even with z/TPF memory below the 2gig bar is critical and challenging to allow growth in expanding the number of I-streams within the 8 processor complex. Each additional I-stream requires 20mof unique Global area below the 2 gig bar. Any thoughts...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Include both the IP address and port number on debugger snap dumps..

Customer is requesting that debugger dumps include both the IP address and port number on debugger snap dumps.. This information would be helpful any debugger error in order to assist in determining what they may have been tracing at the time. If ...
about 10 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...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Additional diagnostic information in the MQSC0362E error message

This is request to include additional diagnostic information in the MQSC0362E error message in the event of an SSL_accept errorSimilar to recently modified error message INET0142E.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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