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z/TPF

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Leverage Spare bits in FARF6 Addressing to support wider DBs

Currently 32 bits are reserved for a variable size ordinal number in an 8 Byte FARF6 address. With this layout, a FARF6 fixed file face type can have at max 4,294,967,294 ordinals allocated. There are currently spare bits available in the addressi...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

keyrc protection restoration should be nested

A method is needed to allow nested sa ving and restoring of protect keys. The current keyrc method only works for 1 level.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swaggers and zDFDL after loading zEV and zREST APARs

1. After loading of certain APARS associated with z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) and z/TPF REST API (zREST) processing it is required that Swaggers and zDFDL be reloaded using the ZOLDR. 2. Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swagger...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQClient Using z/TPF Priority Socket

Z/TPF has the capability to use priority TCP/IP sockets to select socket consumers. An MQ Client consumer external to a Provider z/TPF Systems needs the ability to fetch MQ messages from a local z/TPF MQ Queue while it's input list is in shut down...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZMDES Clean Up after zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or zOLDR Delete

1. ZMDES Manage Deployment Descriptors Process requires multi-CPU/LPAR clean up after a zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or Delete. The other LPARS in the z/TPF Loosely Coupled Complex (LCC) generally do not have their tables updated until an IPL. This...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Is a defect

STIM items scheduled on same minute boundary

after some research we found this was because of a peak in activityscheduled from the STIM table.This bottleneck is caused by the STIM table scheduling too many itemson the same minute boundary, this is most noticable after a long outagewhen TPF i...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

ztpld clear out the KSA (keypiont staging area)

Customer is requesting that ztpld program load process program (cil0) always clear out the KSA (keypoint staging area). The reason for the change is that there was an old keypoint in the keypoint staging area when keypoints were being loaded .&nbs...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Suppress/Circumvent MVT messages

I've been requested to ask IBM if they can provide a method of circumventing the MVT Validation during IPL/Restart of a VPARs System. We currently have many 1/2 test systems (1K modules) which when IPL'ed against create pages and pages of errors b...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support 4K RSA Encryption/Decryption via Crypto

The Dept. of Treasury is requiring us to adopt stronger security standards, such as using >2K public/private RSA keys, specifically, 3K or 4K keys. The issue is performance-related (CPU). The z/TPF OS has only put in support to call the crypto ...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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