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Ability to disable SNA polling

Would like to eliminate or reduce the background noise created by SNA polling which is currently activated a minimum of 20 times per second.The RVTSCAN process is scheduled in ctme.cpy by adding an SWB to the ready list which initiates a call to C...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

We would like a mechanism for resetting all of our sender channels sequence numbers.

When we get into a situation where we know the sequence numbers of all channels have been compromised, would it be possible to have an entry to reset the sequence number on all sender channels? This would be helpful on our test systems after a res...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Assembler macro needed for c header CMQAA0 and CMQMDAA0 .

Customer is requesting that a assembler macro be created for use for assembler programs from the following two c headersCMQAA0 macro was created to give Assembler programs reference to all of the IBM Message Queue Interface (MQI) constants andCMQM...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

MQ add support for MQ Series Clustering

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ06003SContact Originator Id: mike.mansell@aexp.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement to the TPF O/S will add support for MQ clustering as a Receiver and Requestor. Conceptually, clustering, through the use of alias naming con...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Expand VFA Waitlist for DASD IO & Other types

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99011Contact Originator Id: John KucseraAbstract: The VFA Waitlist whould be expanded to include DASD IO and if possible, any other looping type IO for tapes, MPIF, SNA, etc. that the TPF USER might want to remove from the CPU L...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQ04018 MQSeries Provide support for requestor channels

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ04018Contact Originator Id: rmansell@visa.comAbstract: Provide support for requestor channels.Description: Requestor channels are receiver channels that ask the remote sender channel to start. Environments with large number of ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

MQ06002S MQ add support for Message Translation by the Queue Manager

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ06002SContact Originator Id: mike.mansell@aexp.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for message translation by the Queue Manager when requested by the Get function with convert optionDescription: MQ series o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

CC3 option for catastrophic after x mods down

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99015Contact Originator Id: John KucseraAbstract: Establish a SIPGEN option to take CPU down (cycle 1052 state and/or catastrophic) if "X" Mods are lost in "Y" timeframe.Description: This is a small change to CC3 processing. Hum...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support of Jumbo Frames and MTU Discover For zTPF

My client wishes to convert from MTU = 1492 to MTU - 8992 aka Jumbo Frames. Need zTPF to support a TCPIP packet size of 9000 by allowing the zTPF MTU setting to be increased from 3480 to 8992. Also required is the enablement/support of MTU Discovery.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Request for USER FIELD TWO in IDSXFC

Control Transfer Block (IDSXFC) currently contains a USER FIELD ONE (XFCUSER) that is defined as a fullword at displacement X'A8'. The next field is XFCEVNAM that is defined as a doubleword at displacement X'B0'. We are interested in utilizing the...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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