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z/TPF Product Family

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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

Memory below the 2 gig bar.

Even with z/TPF memory below the 2gig bar is critical and challenging to allow growth in expanding the number of I-streams within the 8 processor complex. Each additional I-stream requires 20mof unique Global area below the 2 gig bar. Any thoughts...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Include both the IP address and port number on debugger snap dumps..

Customer is requesting that debugger dumps include both the IP address and port number on debugger snap dumps.. This information would be helpful any debugger error in order to assist in determining what they may have been tracing at the time. If ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Prpoposed header modifications for High Speed Connector

We are proposing an enhancement to the HSC where the user can optionally specify a user HSC header to be used to control HSC TCP communications between TPF and an external host. This suggestion is modeled on the c function activate_on_receipt_of_T...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Additional diagnostic information in the MQSC0362E error message

This is request to include additional diagnostic information in the MQSC0362E error message in the event of an SSL_accept errorSimilar to recently modified error message INET0142E.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF Intersystem Business zEventing using zBEV's MQ Dispatch Queue and zMQ Dynamic Multi Path Routing

1. This RFE enhances the z/TPF Business Eventing Facility (zBEV) to transfer an inflight z/TPF Business Signal Event (zBSE) Message Container from one source z/TPF System to another z/TPF System. 2. The source and target z/TPF Systems do not have ...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

In RAVEN CALL SEND_TO_HOST, (Product: TPF Operations Server 1.2.0, Component ID: 5799GKX00), provide more RC detail

As proposed by IBM in 72840,442,000, a new return variable will be added to SEND_TO_HOST which will contain the RC that an TOS REXX API call to ETOSR_Send would return, including values like "ETOS_SUCCESS" and "ETOS_USE_CMD_REJECT", which allows t...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

Trace log analysis by file address or record id

Enhance trace log analysis to have a file address or record id table by program names. This helps discovery applications that are performing multiple reads on the same file.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

List VPARs IP addresses

ability to auto detect VPARS IP addresses since the user's don't know the IP addresses themselves and have a tendency to make mistakes entering it.  Maybe we don't have this by way of automatic detection but the admin provides a list that the...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Strip leading 0s from IP addresses

leading 0s in IP addresses cause that portion of the address to be treated as octal... need to strip leading 0s.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered