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Enhance offline FCTB validation tool

Use the same code to do FCTB validation offline and online
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Allow IFORMAT statements in former data areas in ZODBR LOAD

This requirement identifies an enhancement to the FCTB Validation package, both online and offline. When running FCTBVAL in Move Mode (-m) the code should recognize and rectify difference in the CTSD between 2 FCTB's if an IFORMAT statement in the...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Allow longer z/TPFDF field names for use by SDO

z/TPFDF DSECTs can contain labels and equates that are up to 63 characters. However, when building the macro label set (MLS), ZUDFM MLS processing truncates all label and equate names after 20 characters when storing these names in the MLS databas...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Show more than 1 error at a time on ZUDFM METADATA VALIDATE

The ZUDFM METADATA command with the VALIDATE parameter only shows one error message at a time because it stops validation after detecting and displaying the first error. This results in a time-consuming process of eliminating errors from the metad...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

TPF Debugger mixed source view

To be able to see the code generated by a TPFDF or SPM macro while debugging a BAL program.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Support Function to Return RCT Values

Provide the means for an ECB to determine how many times it has executed a request for a resource supported by ECBRC
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Multiple ECB Resource Monitoring Limits

This enhancement is to provide: 1) The ability to have multiple ECB resource monitoring limits. This includes the ability to display and modify these levels. The ability to add new limits and delete old limits should also be included. 2) Allow ECB...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Support Resource Limit Actions By Resource Type

ZECBM should support the ability to set the response to 1st and 2nd level resource limits being exceeded by resource type, rather than having a global setting that applies to all resource types.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

z/TPF debugger remote debug information locators FTP feature needs to be able to use active mode

The remote debug information locator feature uses tpf_ftpGet1 to FTP debug information files from an external system to TPF in order to load debug information as it is needed. The debugger code does not specify whether active or passive mode shoul...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Automatically create NVPs (when parsing DFDL)

Problem Statement: It would be beneficial for the z/TPF system to automatically create name-value pairs for REST services and potentially other uses of DFDL parsing. For example, REST service requests often contain details that should be in NVPs f...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered