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Add Proxy Use to Enhanced HTTP Client

Update the Enhanced HTTP Client to be able to connect through a proxy via supplied parms for the new HTTP client API. The "old" HTTP client allowed proxy usage.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

SACK support on zTPF

Support TCP Selective Acknowledgement option (SACK)
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Accept commands from service processor

zTPF should accept commands from the service processor. Under zVM, the CP SEND CP <zTPF guest> VINPUT VMSG <zTPF command> causes an error on the zTPF console: HCPPCX6531E The operating system will not accept commands from the service p...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Norm State Pool Reallocation package

Please see the SR for further information: We have recently used ODBR to move DEVC pools to DEVB. We are now finalizing testing for running a norm state pool re-organization to reassign pools owned by DEVC to the new DEVB owner. Following the norm...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Request for additional User Exits for ZOLDR ACTIVATE SEL

Below is where we would like the new User Exits to be placed. For zTPF HTTP server support: Just before the application scheduled to process the HTTP input is activated. The HTTP input editor is activated with 2 parameters:tpf_httpsvr_req* tpf_htt...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB Error Logging

Enhance TPF MongoDB logging to log all errors regardless of logging configuration for a particular collection. Errors should be logged in such a way that if several concurrent errors of the same type occur the number published to the logger is lim...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TPFDF Data Events to Trigger in CRAS state

Data Events currently do not trigger below norm state. However, there is currently multiple utilities (similar to some incoming transactional processes) that are executed intentionally on a processor that has been removed from the complex (meaning...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate need for an IPL after a ZKEYS RESTORE

Allow a zkeys restore command to take affect without requiring an IPL.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Report ECB heap control table statistics

The initial ECB heap control table (IEHCT) allows each ECB to reference 151 heap nodes, more than this requires the ECB to get system heap to extend its IEHCT.As PJ44907 highlights, this process can cause a bottleneck on the system heap lock and d...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

support service-signal / signal shutdown

Support External Interrupt 2401 (Service-Signal) to shutdown the zTPF system properly automatically. (Like zLinux) Upon receipt of the signal, a message should go to Prime CRAS:"Hypervisor Initiated Shutdown started. Max n seconds remain", then .....
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Not under consideration

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