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    Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown

    Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown to free up socket related resources quickly and provide a faster way to get out of ILS. Currently ZSOCK INACT has resource checks that stop closing of sockets in a quick manner.We suggest...
    over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    snapc and wtopc baseless

    Customer is asking that both the snapc and wtopc macro be made baseless to support application that are being written with baseless in mind. Here's an example of an application error.00001364 28768+ DS 0H Align @411.074 01-SNAPC00001364 AF02 0000 ...
    over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    ZSVTT entry will not validate spares for fixed records

    We can only validate fixed records and pool records but NOT spare records. Sabre doesn't use the alternate FCTB loader so I'm concerned that we have to IPL the system (downtime if it's a single processor) to load a second FCTB just to validate the...
    over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance ENQC support and provide greater visibility/alerting into the number of ECBs waiting on events

    1) There is no means currently for an application to know how many ECBs are waiting on a resource. This means that applications have only two processing options for ENQC 1) if they get the resource or 2) if they don't get the resource. Additional ...
    over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

    Detect attempts to extend size of Application Stack storage beyond ESPS limit

    Attempts to extend Application Stack storage beyond the ESPS limit are not currently detected or handled directly; the stack pointer is set to what should be the new address, but the storage is not mapped. Processing in this scenario inevitably tr...
    over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Populate ICOW owner ID with C-O-W program exception address

    Currently there is no tool to identify the exact location of a Copy on Write exception only the program name.This suggestion involves a three line update in CPSE to add the COW exception program old PSW address as the low order owner ID of the XMB...
    almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance MakeTPF for TPFAR builds.

    Enhance the MakeTPF process to be more of a automated process for TPFAR builds to included the DB2 precompile, the bind and compile. The process exists for .asm files, support needs to be added for c and c++ ...
    almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

    MQ Series - add support for the WebSphere MQ v.6 monitoring functions for Queues and Channels.

    TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ07001FContact Originator Id: bryan.alison@worldspan.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for providing statistical information related to real-time queue and channel usage, in conjunction with the local Queu...
    almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

    ZDHST disp tot

    The command zdhst when displaying the dumps totals from the logs in the file system results in ( UNABLE TO GET HEAP STORAGE FOR ZDHST COMMAND) way too often. The current process is to use the file(s) within the file system across the LC complex to...
    almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

    Separate counts by OSA for ZTTCP STATs display

    On systems with multiple OSAs defined, exception counts (out of order, retransmit, fast retransmit, etc.) are accumulated and displayed together making it difficult to identify or troubleshoot which osa card is having an issue when the counts star...
    about 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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