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z/TPF

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ctl-75's

Customer is asking that the ctl-75 dumps be changed to opr-75's dumps.The opr-75 dumps would allow dumps to be controlled by zaser and prevent the dump database from filling up.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide a way in CMCP hook to access ECB control block to pass data to created ECB

The CMCP hook introduced in APAR PJ42117 did not provide a consistent way to update control block information in order to pass data to a created ECBs. This new hook is called from different places from CP segments and at each place the control blo...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

z/TPF Mobile Workload Pricing

z/TPF customers with measurement data reflecting customer mobile workloads must be made available for specific software pricing agreements. The agreements are well documented for z/OS CICS/DB2 workloads (links provided). Implementation of any infr...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

TYCVA be update to be baseless

Customer is requesting that macro TYCVA be update to be baselessfor application coding that is moving to baseless.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

CPSF Critical Record Filing during catastrophic dump processing

System global records corruption when a PSW Restart. Unfortunately, the GAT was not in the dump, and the theory was that the GAT was corrupted and the non-keypointable global records became keypointable, and CPSF filed the header-stripped global r...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Updated version of OpenSSL

z/TPF is currently running on version 0.9.7 of OpenSSL. This is a fairly old version and there have been many security updates since that time. Including a fix (RFC5746) to the SSL_renegotiate function that is currently disabled.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

deleting dumps from the dump data base

When using the all option on the ZDDMP delete/sync entry , the records in both the file system and in the TPFDF database should be deleted/synced for both active and inactive processor in the complex.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

zddmp wildcard support

Customer Travelport is requesting wildcard support for the ZDDMP entry . Today zddmp only support a four character name. So instead of having to give a four character program name, be able to do :ZDDMP DISP PGM-ACI*, or ZDMP DISP PGM-AC*, or ZDDMP...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Multiple debugger macro breakpoints

Currently today the TPF debugger does not allow multiple macro breakpionts to be step. up. The customer is asking that thus restriction be lifted.An example of this is that a user may want do an ‘enter’ macro group breakpoint for all programs ...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

zddmp keyword parameter and column header match.

Customer is asking that the keyword parameter and column header match on the zddmp entry. zddmp disp complex-tgr proc-a date-08may dump-000003 pgm-ctal ---> SOUTH Entered: zddmp disp complex-tgr proc-a date-08may dump-000003 pgm-ctalDDMP0010I 2...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered