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z/TPF

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PJ44927 ZEXEC enhancements

At Travelport, we have run into two issues using the ZEXEC function. ZEXEC processing defaults to having the entry submitted complete processing within 30 seconds. This is not always possible which causes ZEXEC processing to terminate early. We re...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Would like to include RECID in ZDRHT display

Currently HP has a unique rechord hold display entry that we'd like to sunset, however the dispaly from the entry contains the record id of the lock held. Example: ZUCDH 01« CSMP0097I 10.34.13 CPU-H SS-BSS SSU-AA IS-01 PRIME TABLE ADDR: 0D7C1048 O...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Improve CCCPSE156I messages

When the dump buffer gets full CCCPE starts sending dump messages indicating dump xxxx going to tape. IT would be nice to know what type of dump this is (ctl-3 , ctl-38 etc). In a situation where we are streaming dumps we have no idea what type of...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Lightweight HTTP Server Upgrades

There are a series of missing features ranked in priority order without which the product is not currently usable.Missing Features:1) Chunked Encoding.2) HTTP 1.0 Support.3) SSL Support4) Full RESTful APIs( 4+2 HTTP APIs)5) AoR 8 byte parameter ar...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Digital signature

Update the z/TPF sign and verify digest to support the latest hash algorithms (SHA256)
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Delivered

Simplify DFDL definitions to have greater control of published data

1. Prevent optional fields from being published if structure is not populated with data2. Allow partially populated array to be published
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

DFDL option when to publish elements.

Would like a simple way using DFDL to choose whether to publish elements all the time (which is by default), or only if it contains a non-default value. This should also then apply to arrays in which trailing items containing default values are no...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support multiple zHTTP/zREST Provider Servers with each addressable by unique port number

1. Support multiple zHTTP/zREST Servers with each addressable by unique port number 2. Usage of z/TPF REST API (zREST) Services is growing rapidly. 3. With the growth of zREST URLs, multiple versions of zREST Services Traffic Volumes 4. It has be...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Optimize zREST URL Mapping Table Look up during zREST Processing

1. Optimize z/REST URL Mapping Table Look up during zREST inbound request message processing. 2. Usage of new zREST services is growing quickly along with support of multiple backward compatible versions of the same. Each version has a separate U...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

zREST zSwagger zDFDL Processing needs an option to process in 64 bit Heap rather than the default 31 bit heap

1. When zREST zSwagger zDFDL sorts unsorted JSON Properties into sorted order it needs an option to process using 64 bit Heap rather than the default 31 bit heap. a. 31 bit Heap is a more "scarce resource" b. The zREST Descriptor configuration ...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered