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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

tpfdataredux should be portable to other Linux on z servers

The tpfdataredux utility is a linux based utility that post processes data collection captured on TPF. Customers should be able to run this utility on whichever linux servers they need to. When this component is run on the same linux server used t...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

User Exits in z/TPF HTTP Server for Things Like Message Logging Interfaces

We want to log the HTTP requests coming to the mainframe as well as the HTTP responses sent to the client (the JSON or XML format). For inbound HTTP requests, this will occur before DFDL serialization of the request. For outbound HTTP responses, t...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Java security manager for anonymous classes.

Enhancement request for Java TPF security manager to provide a mechanism for allowing anonymous classes.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide ability to set and enforce a limit to the number of concurrent LP ECBs

There are tuning (core allocation and shutdown threshold level) implications to running large numbers of LP ECBs. A customer really needs to determine a max number of LP ECBs they will allow to run concurrently. If tuning values are set based on a...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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

Low Priority PDU Control Option

PDU control option to run as low priority by default vs. prefixing PDU functional entries.
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

z/TPF MQ Client cannot control local address

z/TPF MQ Client today will default ie the client will bind to the default IP. The customers is request an option to control the local address
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Raise cylinder limitation for 3390 devices

Enable support of >64K cylinders for 3390 devices.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered