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Need support so all files that can be TLD loaded can be included in a TLD deck

File system files can be loaded using OLD or TLD. OLD can load a file system file to any location. By default, a TLD can only load program base unique files. If customers want to allow a TLD to load files to other locations they must update user e...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TLD needs to report how many files were loaded

When a TLD is loaded, it reports the CIMR and keypoints loaded and a count of the number of e-types. It does not currently provide a count of files loaded. When a TLD includes file system files the TLD load should report how many files were loaded...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide MQ user exit for sequence number errors detected by receiver channel

After re-definition of MQ channels, channel sequence number is reset to 1. This leads to sequence number errors when a message is received due to the remote system remembering the last message sequence number sent. A sequence number error requires...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TPF Data Events on Partition Databases

Enhance the z/TPF Business Events Specification to allow for a new element in the business event spec to handle data events where the database is partitioned.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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

DFDL support for XML schema restrictions

Enable restrictions for patterns and enumerations.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF DFDL JSON XML Transformation Performance Optimization from Two Steps to One Step Transformation

1. Currently most DFDL Transformations are a 2 Step Process that is from XML/JSON to/from InfoNodes and then InfoNodes to/from Binary Structure. 2. Although this approach is flexible, extra transformation MIPS are required. The Transformation fro...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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

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

Provide an asynchronous tpf_send_message API of High Speed Connector that is integrated with z/TPF REST API Processing

1. Provide an asynchronous model to the tpf_send_message API of High Speed Connector that is also integrated with z/TPF REST API processing. a. Currently the client calling ECB issuing a high speed connector request is blocked until the server re...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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