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stack validation

Customer is asking for stack validation.One thought may be to consider stack validation as part of C function trace. The concern here is the overhead. Thinking we want to keep C function trace as slim as possible. Another thoughts may be to have s...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Enable builtin optimization for sprintf() APIs

Currently the GCC compiler has –fno-builtin-sprintf enabled in the maketpf rules parameter file. This was introduced as a workaround for a bug in the GCC compiler in 2004, that bug was closed by GCC in 2005 (see bugzilla report: https://gcc.gnu.or...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Enable builtin optimization for isdigit() API

Proposal: Currently the GCC compiler has –fno-builtin-isdigit enabled in the maketpf rules parameter file. This was introduced as a workaround for a bug in the GCC compiler in 2004, that bug was closed by GCC in 2005 (see bugzilla report: https://...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Support Compression for z/TPF HTTP Server

With the increased usage of HTTP and REST provider on TPF, it would benefit customers to have compression enabled in the z/TPF HTTP server.
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/HTTP server send and receive buffer size.

The request is for a way to control the send and receive buffer size for each individual server that is using the tpf HTTP server. The HTTP server sets the send buffer size to 131072 in program chti1.c based on the IHTTPS_SEND_BUFFER_SIZE equate i...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Need new options to prevent dumps from taking too long

If a dump takes a long time to process this represents an effective "outage" to work as all i/streams are perched. Common impacts are that OSA polling may not be possible or may not occur frequently enough while the dump is being taken so OSA buff...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Datax user exit should be called more consistently for NODUMPS

Currently datax user exit is only called if we have NODUPL set and the dump is in the duplicate dump table or this dump should be taken but MAXOPR dumps have been reached this minute so we're going to NODUMP. In other cases (ZIDOT SUPPRESS, DBAOPR...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Remove 4D6 pool usage from ZMAIL STATUS entry

Each ZMAIL STATUS display requires two 4D6 pool records because it uses creates temporary data that is later deleted when the display is constructed.This became a problem after we configured our remote system monitor to poll TPF every second with ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Delivered

EDITA macro needs to be baseless

The customer is requesting that the EDITA macro be updated to support baseless coding. Which means some branches will need to be converted to jumps and a literal which needs to be referenced via a LARL.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

password issue when using the debug

When testers don't save their passwords to the various z/linux machines in toolkit. When they drill down thru the RSE to a file, the system will pop up a screen and ask them for their password, which they can fill in at that time and it will open ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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