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Online warning message for RLOG records

Customer is ask for an online warning message when RLOG records reach 75% full in order to prevent the system from going catastrophic with a C117 dump.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TLS support for ECC (Eliptic Curve Cryptography)

We are implementing a HSC to an endpoint that requires TLS1.2, and it must support the cipher suite "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 with P-256". The support for Eliptic Curve, and this cipher are not currently in z/TPF.
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add SNI support to TLS

We're trying to use High Speed Connector to establish a secure TLS connection to a remote endpoint. The remote system requires TLS SNI (Server Name Indication), which is currently not supported by the HSC implementation of TLS 1.2
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow configurable data header use in the High Speed Connector

Allow configurable data/transport protocol header use in the High Speed Connector. Possible solutions could entail a configuration in the endpoint group xml file. Or could provide User Exit in the High Speed Connector to manipulate the stream to t...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow Unordered processing for Event specific queues, allowing separation of heavy hitters from smaller Events

Thank you again for your time yesterday and answering all of my questions. • Ability to define multiple unordered dispatch queues in addition to the current system default unordered dispatch queue. Each unordered dispatch queue can have multiple E...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

6. z/TPF Automated Generation of zREST Artifacts from Swagger Document

1. TVPT, Citi, Amex, Delta, 2. Headline: Automated Generation of zREST Artifacts from Swagger Document 3. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 4. Date 2018-04-26 5. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Amex, and D...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF Kafka Client

a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire a z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) Dispatch Adaptor that will send an zEV message to a topic on a Kafka Bus b. The Event Message will have been through zEV's "Build ...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Create SHA-512 APIs

Currently IBM has provided SHA-1 and SHA-256 APIs for use under zTPF. For example, we have tpf_SHA256_digest() function calls. CPACF also supports SHA-512, hence we would like access to this hashing algorithm. Our Security group has asked the leve...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 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

Adjust pool set size without IPL

Currently adjusting tpf pool set size requires an IPL to take effect. Requesting to eliminate the need for IPL.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered