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Need alleviation from the cost of dynamic linkage with active loadsets

When a program calls another program and the target program is in an active loadset, CCENBK routine CCEHOLDX is executed to chase the PAT chain and locate the correct version of the target program. This is the basic mechanism that allows dynamic l...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Include program object offset in dump data for inuse heap storage

In a TPF Dump the ECB inuse heap nodes display a header with the module name and module offset of the GET or REL programs, whilst the heap trace shows object file name and object file offset.This enhancement is to request that the inuse heap node ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

LMT Bypass function for critical console displays

HPE would like to request consideration of the feasibility of providing a function/feature which will enable the customer site to instruct zTPF to bypass LMT queueing of critical console output/displays which can play an instrumental role in monit...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

DevOps - Support REST requests to automate deployment of TPF changes

PJ43978 provided support for zTPF load management as an UrbanCode Deploy plug-in. A CI/CD solution for zTPF is needed that is agnostic to the enterprise solution the customer choses to use to manage code integration/deployment. REST enabling loads...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

zTPF c localtme function

TPF running localtime does not support the same functionality as on linux. Had you run a similar program on linux, the localtime function would have been able to detect when and when not to apply DST to timestamps in the past. Because we do not pr...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Delivered

IPC requested enhancements

Requesting the the following enhancement to IPC. . 1. Indicating IPLing from DEAC in PIDT table section 2 When a processor gets ipled from DEAC, the processor sends an IPC message to all active loosely-coupled processors saying I'm ipling from dea...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

PJ44697 Alternative method to avoid IPL of LGF to apply IPL Text to online IPLable Modules

Provide an Online zEntry command that will apply any given IPL TEXT to the IPL'able Online modules. This function would be similar to what ACPL does during a LGF IPL. Additionally, the function should also include the capability to fallback the IP...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Delivered

Need 64bit addressing support in zTPF Heap Management code

It has been over 8 years since the zTPF Operating System was released, the main feature of which is 64bit addressing capabiltiies. It is time for the zTPF Heap Management code to support 64bit addressing as it is still constrained by code using on...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Delivered

Check CRET values in MQ channel logic

The customer requests changes to MQ channel software to check CRET values. During zTPF testing they took a CTL-I00000E error (CRET table full). The software issues CRETC for every sender channel that needs to go into retry mode.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Channel path removal and add for tape devices

Customer is requesting an option on the ztvar to be able to remove and add channel path to a tape device. This surfaced in a situation were the customers shares channels to multiple TS7720 and a channel needed to be removed from only one of theTS7...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

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