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Additional information required in CTL-E08 dumps would aid diagnosis

The way CTL-E08 dumps are driven means that the resource that was held for too long is only available in the dump if the macro trace happens to go back far enough to show the ENQC. The makes it unnecessarily difficult to diagnose root cause. The r...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Include caller of IBM System Services in ZTRAP EI Application Program Summary Report

Include caller of IBM System Services in ZTRAP EI Application Program Summary Report
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Unable to change pool Ratio Dispensing without system cycle

We now have the ability to do online pool generation and have recently completed one to increase 4DP pool. The problem we run into is that the pool generation process changes the ratio dispensing to 99 for all device types. This means that pool is...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

ZRECP STA (DF display) needs to display more than 22 sub-files, Amex has 29.

Recoup Statistical Data - ZRECP STA- Only displays a max of 22 DF subfiles, it needs to display many more. Opened PMR – # 68138,227,000 Lab asked for additional displays which were returned 9/29/16 10-06-16 - LAB requested “RFE” to prioritize enha...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ZIFIL should support Last or End ordinal

Currently, the ZIFIL command requires the user to explicitly indicate the starting and ending ordinals of a record type that they want to initialize. We want to be able to specify all (or remainder if start =/= 0) records of a record type need to ...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

DFDL improvement to not having to specify the length for variable length

DFDL improvement to not having to specify the length for variable length fields during serialization that would involved DFDL hidden groups and outputValueCalc
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Extra throttling mechanism to check system resources before accepting more MongoDB traffic

As discussed and was suggested in PMR 65447 a user exit is needed to check system resources ensuring new message can be handled and the system is healthy and has enough resources before processing new incoming MongoDB message.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Better performing C function for reading TPF globals FMT-1

TPF globals were designed for speed , a format-1 global acess from an assembler program takes just one instruction to load the correct base from either CE1GLA or CE1GLY. Accessing the same global from a C program requires a C function call: glob(_...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide a new user exit to fully support overriding IBM dump content

User exit DOT allows users to add or remove SMDT items from dumps but:1) it cannot be used to change the content of IBM dumps that are SYSDUMP=NO (e.g. opr-4)2) overrides to content set in DOT are not always displayed by ZIDOT DISPLAY STORAGE. Thi...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

API to set format-2 global keypointing indicator after tpf_glOpen with TPF_GLRDFST option

The current method of updating format-2 globals uses a CORHC to serialize updates, this is issued by the tpf_glOpen call when option TPF_GLRDWR is used and released by the tpf_glClose call.This CORHC window represents a sizable bottleneck requirin...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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