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Dump viewer ECB time out needed

During Dump viewer sessions an ECB can remain active for a long time in the system or seem hung. The ECB are left active in a number of causes for example if the users walk away from the dump session or the PC gets rebooted. . So sessions need to ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Suppress dumps when a user knowingly terminates a debug session

When a user terminates the debugger session (in CUDUEXIT) the CE1SUI bit should be turned on so dumps in exit processingdo not occur .
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

z/TPF update to capture EMW (Extended Measurement Word) from IRB

z/TPF update to be done likely within csect CCSONS to capture the Extended Measurement Word (EMW) from the IRB This would modify the DASD interrupt handler routine to save the extended measurement word (EMW) in z/TPF's I/O control block (IOB). The...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide UTF-EBCDIC conversion routines in addition to UTF-EBCDIC support in the SOAP, XML and JSON B2B Parser.

Provide UTF-EBCDIC support in zTPF. Currently, zTPF supports UTF-8 and IBM-1047. In order to use the B2B Parser, the user must convert the message to IBM-1047. When going thru this conversion, numerous characters are not represented in IBM-1047 bu...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ZDPAT /ZAPAT display for TIMESLICE

ZDPAT does not display the TIMESLICE setting qualifier
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Delivered

Include IP address on MQSC0361E errors

Include IP address on MQSC0361E errors
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Add Content-Length header if Connection:Keep alive header is sent

PJ42624 provides management of Connection: Keep alive headers, however it does not ensure content length is returned if a Connection: Keep alive header is added. If the application has not specifically added the content length this results in the ...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ECBRM enhancement request. File Rate Monitor

IBM presented plans to enhance ECBRM and HP has a local mod that we would like included in the base product as an enhancement.In the File Rate monitor we have it set up to exit ecb's with settings of FILE TIME 40 mils and FILE RATE 256. We only wa...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Continuous Data Collection cannot graph Channel Stats because they are non-numeric

Many of the statistics in CDC have the ability to be charted, or graphed. However, channel statistics cannot be graphed because they are considered non-numeric. However, being able to graph this will provide great value.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide a means of identifying COW usage of 4K frames

4K frames are used for many purposes on TPF including backing FIND/GETs beyond the PPA allocation and to back COWs. There is no current way of determining how many 4K frames are used to back COWS compared to those used for other purposes. To effec...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered