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z/TPF Reduced Cost Testing

Marriott, DL, TVPT, 2. Headline: Reduced Cost Testing 3. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 4. Date 2018-04-26 5. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Marriott, and Delta desire Reduced Cost Testing such that t...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide meaningful ways of verifying right data files loaded to online

We load data files to the system thru E-type load or Image load (TLD). However there is no way to know that we loaded right ones to the system. We do have multiple revisions of the same file at CVS (source library). When Applications submit an onl...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

SSL Support for High Speed Connector

Provide the ability to send data across a high speed connector group that supports SSL.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Add user exit to the ZCPYS zFunction command code to allow the user to set global/switches for utilities active

By inserting a USER EXIT prior to ( and following ) activating a ZCPYS FC FLASH or ZPCYS SGC BACKUP, we can check to ensure that there are no other system critical utilities that are running that may be impacted by the resource intensive Flash/SGC...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need tool that allows for manual merging of 3 files creating a new 4th file

As a developer, when there is source contention on a file, a tool is needed to help resolve that contention by generating a new file containing the differences manually selected by the developer. A tool is needed that will assist in resolving cont...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF business event APIs to query status and info about active events and dispatch adapters

1. Provide zEV API returning the zEV Names of all Deployed and Active z/TPF zEVents 2. A customer written z/TPF program will call the API every "n" minutes to get a list of all deployed and active z/TPF Business Eventing Facility (zEV) Named Event...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Reduce time to mod copy up and all

Mod copy package needs to be improved to take advantage of dasd improvements ie ssd, hpf. Hard coded limitations create lengthy mod copy runs.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

NVP(Name Value Pair) Area Display in Dumps

It would be helpful if NVP area would always be included when dumping all ECBs.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF MQ Multi Channel Support

Headline: MQ Multi Channel Support 2. Lead Contact: john.prictoe@citi.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Citibank and Travelport desire an implementation of z/TPF MQ Support multiple MQ channel paths to a...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Include IP address and SSL Alert in INET0142E SSL HANDSHAKE error message

It would facilitate troubleshooting and problem remediation if the handshake error message would include the client IP address and the SSL Alert value. (Note that I would not expect any change to the INET0144E message.) 00.00.06 - INET0142E 00.00....
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered