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z/TPF

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z/TPF Country Centric Data Processing

Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers; Travelport, Amex and SABRE, desire an implementation of z/TPF where multiple cross linked z/TPF Systems can selectively host select z/TPF Data in specific Countries b. The implementation will help fu...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Logical Cache Management Changes - ability to resize caches

Tying into the PMR, to request additional features of LRC.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Multiple service definitions in the same service descriptor file

Multiple service definitions in the same service descriptor file. It would allow to create and load on z/TPF array with service definitions in one service descriptor file. With that solution only on *.srvc.json and *.sar file would be necessary pe...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Extend the number of file id slots in the recoup statistics subfile

It appears that the gr26sr recoup stats subfile is limited to 17 file IDs (slots). We have a top level index file which addresses multiple databases and indexes 35 subfiles, either directly or indirectly. As a result we have 19 subfiles which have...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

SON POOL DIRECTORY UPDATE ECB CREATE CONTROL

During pool directory update, program DYDU uses IBMBATCH lodic class to control number of child ecbs to be created. Our IBMBATCH value for ECBs is 70 percent. We have 8650 ecbs defined. DYDU uses CREMC to create child ecbs. This results in signifi...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

DIAG dump or informational message for Common Blocks

We have an issue within our PSS Loosely Coupled Environment where we have very busy activity in different periods of the day, and as a result, the size of the Ready List (as well as CROSS at times) is increased by Common Block. Our Common Block is...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Stateful z/TPF ECB: Allow one JAVA instance to execute a singular z/TPF ECB across multiple invocations

TPS, CITI's z/TPF based Financial Authorization system envisions using IBM's JAVA support for business solutions. The business logic would be developed in JAVA and in one JAVA instance, multiple calls would need to be made to z/TPF in order to exe...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Deploying Swagger Document with the "In" value specifies in the Base Path Parameters

1. Deploying Swagger Document with the "In" value specifies in the Base Path Parameters2. The "In" Parameter of is currently not supported by z/TPF but is supported as a parameter in the z/OS Connect Tool that constructs the Swagger Document for z...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support NVP display options for in-use ECBs

1) Enhance ZDECB to display the Value associated with a user requested NVP Name. 2) Enhance ZSTAT to summarize the count of in use ECBs by Value for a user requested NVP Name (i.e. something similar to ZSTAT OWNER BLOCK-ECB HIGH-xx but summarizing...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Request support for non-blocking shared SSL_write

When using shared SSL support in z/TPF, even though a socket connection may be using a non-blocking socket, the application issuing the SSL_write() function call is blocked. The underlying SSL Daemons can detect errors such as SSL_error_want_write...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered