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Support SHA-256 on ZPUBK commands

The industry is deprecating SHA1 - it is no longer considered "secure enough". Even self-signed certificates created on ZTPF will be problematic after January 1, because the major browser vendors are going to start popping up warnings about SHA-1 ...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need additional protection for Page/Segment table

HP is requesting that the Page/Segment table be more protected so that ECBs running with protect key 0 cannot corrupt it. HP has experienced EVM page table corruption in one of our production environments (multiple times now), which is what prompt...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Include the IP number and the port in all debugger dump messages

In the case of debugger dumps both the IP number and the port number should be included are part of the dump message going to the console..In this case the dump number ADB01 did not included it.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

baseless for scana and edita

Customer is requesting that both the EDITA and SCANA macro's be updated to support baseless program.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

CPACF performance improvement

This is related to SR 91568 being worked by the zTPF developement lab. we have an application that is required to encrypt data via SHA256 in a loop 10000 times ( it is rumored that number might increase). we run a tightly coupled system with 12 is...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Include CRET table in CTL E dumps

The CRET table should be included in CTL E dumps for betterdiagnostic of the CTL-E
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ZDBUG CLEAR IP- is not specific enough

Currently some customers users and remote contractors use CITRIX to access the toolkit debugger. Each of these users is given their own private port number to use as all CITRIX users have the same IP address. Therefore it is not currently possible...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ECB Resource Police and system errors

For the ECB Resource Police it currently provides alert notification when an ECB has issued x number of system errors. Customer is asking for an additional enhancement that will provide notification when x number of system errors have been issued ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

MAXBC should support baseless CP callers

MAXBC should generate baseline inline code for CP callers so CP.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Improve TCP/IP performance by reducing socket lock contention

Currently too much cpu time is spent spinning on socket header lock in tcp/ip apis. Request IBM reduce the contention on this lock.Phased approach will work. Start with read type tcp/ip api's and move later to update api's.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered