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limit dumps when buffer is full

A method must be provided to limit dumps when the dump buffer area is getting full. A ZASER MAXOPR should be provided that is similar to ZASER MAXCTL as well. The CPSE0156I message should be updated to indicate the dump being dumped .
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Better Scaling of TPF Logical Record Cache

TPF Logical Record Cache while functional is inefficient at scale due to poor hashing algorithms and incorrect prime number calculations that in combination produce long synonym chains and high CPU burn when chasing them.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

64bit Memory Manager Support For More Than 2GB Contiguous Heap

System Heap Allocations are limited in various places to 2GB or 4GB contiguous storage. During an attempt to allocate more than 2GB the system allocated the storage but caused heap corruption and either hangs or produces a PPROT error. In various ...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

LOGCAP macro enhancement

client has 3 dasd device types. DEVA/DEVB/DEVC . Would like to distribute exception recording and logging across 3 tapes, RTX, RTU, and RTV. Would like each tape to service 1/3 of the devices for each device type. As an example the RTX would conta...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

JSON support on zTPF

Need JSON support directly on zTPF
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Certify Dignus Version 1.98

We have a requirement to implement the latest Dignus compiler by 3Q 2014.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Provide dump override for ECB heap control table

Customer reported a problem involving the corruption of the ECB heap control table (EHCT). This corruption resulted in a CTL-4 dump in ccstor on a free(). To help identify the source of the corruption, the customer wanted to examine the entire EHC...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

program debug /nodebug option

The customer is asking for the debugger to be more granular down to the macro level rather than at the program level if the program can be debugged by the debugger or not.. So in this example the customer has it's own application lock similar to I...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

TPF Build Environment should be certified at RHEL Version 6.X

Citi infrastructure teams are moving z/Linux instances from RHEL 5.X to RHEL 6.X. This requirement is driven by corporate standards and forces the TPF Ssystems team to request certification of the RHEL 6.X environment for the z/TPF build environme...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

ZNKEY OSABUFF enhancement

The customer Travelport is asking that the znkey OSAbuff display detail the number of buffer that were used from 31 to 64. Currently the display is only detailing inuse buffers for 0-31 . In would also be nice to have a indication of how many time...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Delivered

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