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Tivoli Monitoring to run in CRAS

Currently, Tivoli Monitoring (Continuous Data Collection) can only run in NORM state. We are requesting that it can also run in CRAS state.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Add &SCOMPLEX to syset to support conditional assembly based on complex

Customers may support multiple TPF complexes that each use the same CPU ids. Different complexes may have different requirements for e.g. DBDEFs. We need a way to support conditional assembly based on the complex name. The CONFIG sip macro takes a...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Eliminate tape drive mounted requirement for zTPF to IPL

Eliminate tape mounted requirement for IPL to norm state
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

recycle of the HTTP client daemon

Customer is requesting automatic recycle of the HTTP client daemon as the result of a system activation number change.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

make macro ALPHA baseless

To assist in baseless programming the customer is asking that macro ALPHA be made baseless.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

CPSA restriction on nodupl dumps .

Looping CPSA dumps can lead to system performance. This request is to remove the CPSA restriction on nodupl dumps .
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Increase read() low water mark level to be higher that 64k

With the message sizes increasing the read() low water mark level needs to be increased. This was updated to 64k with PJ41245 requesting that this value be increased further .The values are defined in cts5 as sndlowat and rcvlowat..
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TPF support of HPF under VM

TPF test systems need to mirror production systems wherever possible. TPF only supports HPF on a native system. The majority of TPF testing is done under VM, where TPF does not support HPF. VM does support HPF
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TPF Support of new dasd features on non RCS dasd

Dasd features such as Prefix ccw's, HPF and HPAV are only supported by TPF on DASD with RCS. RCS is no longer needed and should not restrict our use of the features available on the dasd.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add support to the ZPUBK REQCERT command for SHA-2 certificates. Include as part of upgraded version of OpenSSL in PUT13

For certificate requests, the ZPUBK REQCERT command contains support for the SHA1 and MD5 digest algorithms, but we will need to add support for the SHA-256 hash algorithm to enable certificates created on z/TPF to be signed with the SHA-256 hash ...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered