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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...
over 6 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...
over 6 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...
over 6 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...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

DFDL support of dfdl:inputValueCalc API

The request is for DFDL functionality to support the dfdl:inputValueCalc API and parser.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support XML as a Standard z/TPF Eventing Format

This RFE supports XML documents as a standard option in business events.  In other words, you would be able to say "XML" in the event specification and business events would create an XML document for the event.  The same DFDL schema would also be...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Reduce the number of system heap calls to allocate overflow ECB heap control entries

When a large number of ECB heap calls are made, reduce the number of system heap calls to allocate overflow ECB heap control entries."
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add JSON as a standard supported format for Business Events.

IBM has a non-supported program that does JSON transformation for business events for use in testing business events. Please harden and move this application into the system as part of the official IBM business events application. JSON is a broadl...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered