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z/TPF Product Family

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Allow ZOSAE modification without network down

When attempting to change the real IP address or Gateway IP address of a primary OSA definition, the change is rejected if the alternate OSA is active. This requires a network outage to change the IP information on an OSA adapter that is already i...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF CACHE STORAGE should use Ready list completion stacking longest IO first to shortest

With HPF (HIGH PERFORMING FICON) and the CPU LOOP interactions with CACHED SOLID STATE STORAGE --- Generally speaking APPs on activation will (likely) incur a cache miss which is slightly longer than a CACHE HIT. At any given time there can be a n...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IPtrace output.

Customer is requesting an option when post processing IPtrace to include both the EBCDIC and ASCII side by side on the same report. Today it lets them request either EBCDIC or ASCII
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support PKCS-PAD option for zTPF Encryption/Decryption APIs

Support PKCS-PAD option for zTPF Encryption/Decryption APIs so zTPF can share encrypted data with z/OS.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Request support for sending multiple responses in chunks

Currently, the maximum response size of the z/TPF HTTP server is limited by the ECB heap storage allowance. This is typically less than 10 MB. Sometimes we need to send large response messages whose sizes exceed 10 MB, but that's not possible unde...
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Command to reset the stats on MQ queues and channels

A Command is needed reset the stats on queues and channels
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support UTF-EBCDIC in the B2B Parser for JSON and SOAP

Recently UTF-EBCDIC was added functionality for the B2B Parser which has been very helpful. We recently determined that JSON and SOAP was not included in that support. We would like JSON and SOAP to be included in the support included under the B2...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to skip adding data to offline IP trace capture

Today we can specify the IP trace capture size for a specific applname in the Network Services Database. This will override the system level trace size. However the minimum size that can be specified is 8 bytes. This 8 bytes is of data, on top of ...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Access Traditional TPF Databases with MongoDB API

Enhancement to z/TPF MongoDB API to accept and process mongo functions against non-TPFDF databases by utilizing the tdbi collection descriptor.
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF support for Link Time Optimization

GCC compiler support for Link Time Optimization was announced in October 2014. We would like to utilize that support to improve run-time performance of TPF applications writen in C/C++.
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration