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CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without naming a table

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without having to set up a table for this purpose. Currently every CRUISE function requires a table be created first. The VERIFY could kick off as soon as the entry is made, or it...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should allow the aggregation of smaller tables into one large super table or a table of tables

CRUISE should allow aggregation of smaller tables into one large super table or a table made up of other tables. This would allow multiple tables to be run as a single job from start to finish. Instead of taking REF-ID parameters as input, the Sup...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a facility to execute functions at the system level, e.g. full system CAPTURE

Provide new system level functions, e.g. CAPTURE type. This would scan through the entire ID range from the beginning to the end, to chain-chase each of the ID's in the DBDEF table. This is similar to what RECOUP does. Providing functions for syst...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE logs should include the list of tape volumes created or used by a parameter table

CRUISE should include a list of capture tape volumes created by a Capture or restored by a parameter table. Currenlty, no log or record is kept of the tape volumes generated during the capture. The information has to be obtained from the console l...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the CRUISE cross-reference file processing and handling options

There are several considerations in how the CRUISE cross-reference files are allocated and used. In addition to the need to improving the performance which has been addressed in other RFEs, there are other enhancements that would provide more flex...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

TPFDF C++ API

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF00153Contact Originator Id: Matt BrostAbstract: A C++ TPFDF function library.Description: Development of a C++ function library for TPFDF. This library should take advantage of C++ facilities such as function overloading to inc...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Reindex function when inserting new key

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF00140Abstract: A reindex function is needed for index structures when a new key item is inserted between existing key items.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

TPFDF should support GDS

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF00098Abstract: TPFDF should include Swissair's Shared GDS in the base product
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Def common DBDEF and RIAT info in one place

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF00096Abstract: The common information in the DBDEF and RIAT should one be defined in one location.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Support in-core records for performance

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF00079Contact Originator Id: PSP/KLMAbstract: Index records should have the option of being core resident fixed file records for performance reasons. Some data structures are so heavily used that designers think it is not wise t...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

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