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Debugger Callback Issue

Toolkit Debugger callback (TPF test system doing a call back to user desktop running Debugger) is causing conflicts with DXC corporate security policies. I would like to ask IBM to evaluate alternatives in order to avoid costly workarounds for users.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

TOS client and server should support IPv6

The Government is under a mandate to convert all systems and products to IPv6 networking, as IPv6 offers more capability and security. Eventually the government will remove IPv4 traffic thereby eliminating dual-stack requirements.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Not under consideration

Recoup Phase 5 use of the RTL tape

Recoup phase 5 (ZRECP DUMP entry) writes all lost and erroneously available file pool records to the current real-time logging tape (RTA or RTL). Can the recoup phase 5 process be changed to write to a different tape thats only used for recoup? HP...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

ZVFAC USAGE to show files and finds rather than simply accesses

The ZVFAC USAGE display gives total accesses which includes both find and file activity, for more clarity the display could be enhanced to show separate totals for file and find type accesses.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 8 Not under consideration

VFA performance suggestion

Whilst testing an application that issues thousands of FILECs on a specific VFA Immediate file address we saw the ZVFAC USAGE display never showed more than one access.This is because VFA uses a new buffer if the current one has the write active b...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Internet Daemon Configuration File (IDCF) - Allow the ability to specify on which I-stream an Internet Server will start

When altering or adding an Internet server appication entry to the IDCF, allow the ability to specify on which I-stream that server will start.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

OSA polling when nearing the depletion of IPMT blocks

Enhancement to shutdown OSA polling when nearing the depletion of IPMT blocks. This occurs today when polling during dump processing, but is not done in the mainline polling path. To prevent complete depletion of IPMTs by OSA polling and possible ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase max ordinals per chain chase ECB (RANGE Option)

The max interval of ordinals Recoup can chain chase per root ECB is 65535. This is very beneficial when chain chasing wide/shallow structures. Increasing this maximum would allow Recoup runtimes to further benefit from this support.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Leverage Spare bits in FARF6 Addressing to support wider DBs

Currently 32 bits are reserved for a variable size ordinal number in an 8 Byte FARF6 address. With this layout, a FARF6 fixed file face type can have at max 4,294,967,294 ordinals allocated. There are currently spare bits available in the addressi...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 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...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Not under consideration

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