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Process tape queue in between dumps

In the case of excessive dumping, we would like to see a change where IBM will drain or process some of the tape queue in between each dump. IBM reviewed this request in the past, indicated that they agree with this need, and requested an RFE be o...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Preserve DBA and dumps when force deac is done

HP has various scenarios where there is a need to force deac a processor, and in those cases, we'd like to preserve the dumps. With streaming dumps, or a processor hang, as well as in the case of a catastrophic dump, it typically makes sense in ou...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

TPFAR DDM limit and version.

This includes two enhancements request for TPFAR. 1) Some programs have too many columns to insert/update to allow a run time bind. The maximum DDM commands for TPFAR is 100. A program doing an INSERT/UPDATE for up to 94 columns, with static bindi...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Socket connect() user exit

Would like to be able to interrogate and possibly take action on particular connect() return codes for certain IP destinations.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ZRECP DUMP ecb value needs to be tunable

The ZRECP DUMP process is a heavy resource user. The Max ECB level needs to be tunable. The exising max of 250 ECBs is too high for some systems. No two TPF systems run the same, and we need the ability to tune this accordingly.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

GDS 64K cylinder restriction

With GDS support you are limited to 64K cylinders (2 byte field) per dataset. This maxes out at a 46G file. This restriction needs to be lifted due to increasing file size.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications

When debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications if the parent ECB has a EVMWC code and is waiting for the child to post an to the event. If we set the parent ECB running – we will get timeout from EVNWC and the application does not behave c...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

indication number of broken chains for onel exceeded after message recp0410i

After message recp0410i the zrecp onel display does not indicate that more broken chains were found than reported in the onel. Even better would be to report the exact number of broken chains found, even though only the first xxx are actually logg...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support for ZVFAC USAGE FA RECID=0000 entry

Data collections show almost 1% of VFA reads are for record ID x'0000', this is a default bucket for records that don't have a RIAT definition, one of these is ID'00EB' accessed by CVAA from #IBMM4 ordinal #IFMSG (0x4B). This ID was only found by ...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

debugger bct trap

The customer is asking for a debugger enhance that would allow then to trap on the first instruction outside of a BCT loop , whether it's due todue to branching out or by falling through the BCT loop
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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