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z/TPF Product Family

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Add connect timeouts to HSC parameters

The current connect timeout for High Speed connector is a multiplier of syncTimeout attribute in the endpoint descriptor file. The current SSL connect timeout (i.e. time to finish SSL negotiation) is hardcoded at 1 second. We are requesting that t...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Functional entry to display system heap by token name

New functional entry to display system heap with a token name
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Delivered

Request support of configurable request timeout for HTTP request message

Currently, the maximum request timeout on reading HTTP request message is set by a default 3-second (IHTTP_NOSSL_TOTALTIMEO) for non-SSL session and 5-second (IHTTP_SSL_TOTALTIMEO) for SSL session. There are users running z/TPF system under VM and...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support for a sub-second "cretc-like" function

STIMC can be used for sub-second activation of CP routines, but current CRETC support only allows for second or minute interval activation of e-type programs. This RFE requests a sub-second "cret-like" function so that e-types can request sub-seco...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

ZDECB TR to display ECB heap trace

IBM documentation (Library>Trace tables>ECB heap trace tables) refers the reader to the ZDECB TR entry to display the trace of system heap calls for the current ECB.However ZDECB TR doesn't have such an option but it sounds like a useful fea...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add support for DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 cipher suite

According to our Approved Security Protocols and Cryptographic Algorithms Standard (ASPCAS) policy document, the strategic direction appears to be to deprecate cipher block chaining (CBC) mode in favor of Galois/Counter Mode (GCM). Therefore, neit...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add support for DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 cipher suite

According to our Approved Security Protocols and Cryptographic Algorithms Standard (ASPCAS) policy document, the strategic direction appears to be to deprecate cipher block chaining (CBC) mode in favor of Galois/Counter Mode (GCM). Therefore, neit...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

NoSQL Access to z/TPF TPFDF Databases - 2016 Enhancements

Enhance NoSQL z/TPF server product to provide additional features to retrieve information from a z/TPFDF database within a z/TPF system.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

z/TPF Code Coverage data as a pure z/TPF system service via a conversion utility and/or a public data format

We are able to generate Code Coverage data on z/TPF. However, the data is in binary format and not consumable for analysis by z/TPF developers except with TPF Toolkit. Similarly, the functionality of converting the binary Code Coverage data to XML...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Query to ENQC/DEQC resource events

Please add an option to ENQC/DEQC to query the resource to see if it is in use, much like the query option on a normal event item.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered