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z/TPFDF

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ZUDFM entry do display program/relation...

Our RECOUP procedure includes a "ZRBKD DISP ALL" entry to have a view of our descriptors in the TPF log, but today most of our databases use DBDEF instead of RECOUP descriptor. We would appreciate an entry like "ZUDFM DEF REC" which combines ZUDFM...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

New User Exit for DBCLS

We would like a new user exit case that can be used at DBCLS.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Not under consideration

The CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF works fine except that old pools are not getting released

Hi, When running a CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF database, old pools are not getting released even though the RELEASE option is specified in the CRUISE RESTORE definition table. We prefer to have old pools released following a CRUISE Rest...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Additional ZRECP LONG support to avoid long running behavior when Long Chain Detection thresholds are set too low

Recently during a system outage a Recoup was necessary to validate the integrity of our Database once the system was back up. As part of normal Recoup procedures a ZRECP LONG display entry is made to view logs of DF Files that contain subfiles tha...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF data collection

TPFDF open/close routines in UBC0 collect data for ECB resource monitor, CDC, and TPFDF data collection. These collections run constantly but are rarely used. A switch to control these counters would reduce CPU utilization by TPFDF.
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TPFDF Data Events Specification CollectOpen to be a parameter for collectionType=Subfile

collectOpen at the <lrecIncludeAll> or <lrecIncludeList> level means all LRECs in the database must be accounted for if the collectionType = Subfile. If LRECs are added to the database, then the EVSPEC must be kept in sync.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

DFDL Generation for JAX-B Processing

Currently the DFDL generated out of the “zudfm decsriptor file-xxxxxxxx” in such a way that when run through JAX-B to generate a Java objects called DFLREC, which contains members for each LREC in the database. The LRECS are generated a single mem...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

CRUISE Restore BFA tape roll-in should allow read from multiple drives concurrently

The CRUISE Restore tape roll-in should allow tape reads from multiple drives concurrently. CRUISE should have the option to use more than one tape drive concurrently for the BFA tape roll-in phase. The tape drives can be kept stacked with tapes so...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

TPFDF should utilize the RIAT

IBM Standard TPFDF uses generic prototypes for all TPFDF applications per any given pool type. SHARES uses TPFDF for roughly 75% of the database. Using IBM TPFDF standard, hundreds of millions of records per day would issue GET on the same record ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 4 Not under consideration

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition. A running CRUISE table has the potential to hang or get stuck in a sort of deadlock situation. The maximum allowed ECB's have already been created. One or more ECB's may need...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

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