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Expand user lodic classes

6 user lodic classes are insufficient for all user definitions. An additional 8 are requested.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

selectivity apply apars

Selectivity apply apars for fixes has become more difficult in the z/TPF build process in the way libcpoco.a is build. The build of libcpoco.anow crosses more functional area so the drag of prereq apars becomes impossible to manage. It most cases ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Not enough LibVec entries for exported functions.

The number of functions that may be exported by a program is fixed at IPL time, as the number of functions being exported by the baseline version of the program * 2 (room for growth). Room for growth is the maximum number of new functions that may...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Take advantage of SSD performance in TPF DASD utility parms

We have mods in our zTPF systems that allow more TPF mod Copies per cpu/complex and reduce the minimum wait IOTIME for TPF Capture.These changes were made when we went to SSD so that we could fully utilize the performance improvements in our envir...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Recoup chain chase needs to handle wide/shallow databases

Recoup congestion on IRART CORHC when chain chasing wide/shallow databases caps recoup's ability to run at the MAX ECB rate defined and means there is no way to manage or improve chain chase runtimes. The congestion on the IRART is due to the fact...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Support size option in format-2 global

Support a function to increase the size of existing format-2 global without affecting contents. Currently format-2 global does not support a function to increase the size of existing format-2 global. HP opened a PMR (04197 004 000). IBM provided a...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide a LODIC macro expansion for CP code without an ECB to issue a LODIC CHECK

The CP can and does issue a LODIC type request using a CLNKC to CICSLODI. This API is awkward and not really documented specifically other than in the commentary around the CICSLODI code in cics.cpy itself. The CICSLODI commentary indicates an ECB...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ZDHST option to display last 24 hours without requiring start date parameter

To get a display of the last 24 hours of dump statistics using ZDHST requires the user to specify a start date that is 24 hours old:.ZDHST DISPLAY OCCUR-50 START-23APR14.000000 HOURS-24.Could IBM provide an option that does this date calculation i...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

MQ clients create long running CTS7 ECBs that do not recycle on ACN change

MQ clients can connect to SVRCONN channels which creates a long-running CTS7 ECB for each connection. The CTS7 ECBs do not recycle on system ACN change.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Reorder Time in IBM Tivoli Monitoring

Customer is asking that both the pool reorder time and set size be added into the IBM Tivoli Monitor. Reorder Time and set size is included in the pools data collected by the CDC Collector on TPF but it is not being sent to the Tivoli displays. As...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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