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z/TPF Product Family

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Detecting unusable OSAs

he z/TPF OSA-Express support has a concept of virtual IP addresses which allows you to swing IP addresses from one physical OSA card to another.      To communicate externally, OSA's have defined to them first hop gateway IP address...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 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...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need alert when TOS RAVEN dies.

There are various instances of where we experience RAVEN dying. When this happens, all automation ceases. We need a way for our Operators to be notified that RAVEN has died so the problem can be resolved as quickly as possible.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 2 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

CTL-D dumps need the RHT

CTL-D dumps needed to have RHT (record hold table ) added to then to assist in problem determination.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Provide Support for FARF6 Fixed File Records

We need to have fixed file records beyond FARF5 limitation.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Delivered

Remove IDCLS from the default items dumped by a normal CTL dump

When the CP detects an application error the ECB is exited with a CTL dump such as CTL-3, CTL-7, CTL-8 etc, these types of errors can normally be solved from their MINI dump report data. If such dumps are post-processed as FULL dumps the report fi...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

ZPATH should work for tape devices

We don't have any way to put down a tape device path.ZPATH should work on tape device and DASD as the ZDDSI entries.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

DFDL support for XML schema restrictions

Enable restrictions for patterns and enumerations.
about 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Exclude internal CISO function calls from the C function trace

Some CISO functions such as sprintf and snprintf are complex applications in their own right with many internal function calls that are of little interest to most programmers. This request is to remove such calls from the C function trace, or at t...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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