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z/TPF Product Family

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Stack Validation dump CTL-064009 should allow return to application

Stack Validation is a ZSTRC trace option introduced with PUT12 and is very effective in identifying applications that corrupt their own stack variables.However it is also a victim of its own success as the resulting CTL-064009 dump exit the applic...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Shutdown option after performing an update

I would like an option for the user to choose between either closing or restarting IBM TPF Toolkit after is update is performed. Currently, the user is shown a box with "OK" as the only option and it restarts automatically.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Make socket identifier available in the MQ client

This is a request to Make the socket identifier available in the MQ client for use by the customer . The customer needs a way to identify what the socket number is in use by which MQ Client
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

DFDL Generation for JAX-B Processing

Currently the DFDL generated out of the “zudfm decsriptor file-xxxxxxxx” in such a way that when run through JAX-B to generate a Java objects called DFLREC, which contains members for each LREC in the database. The LRECS are generated a single mem...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Include tape ownership details on ZTPLF QUERY ... VSN-... display

Tape ownership in a mutiple cluster GRID linked VTS tape environment is quite an important variable when one of the VTS devices is down or the link between them is not functioning.In this degraded state any tapes owned by the unavailable VTS canno...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SSL_get_fd function

Given an SSL object token, return the fd of the underlying socket or sockets associated with it. Another complimentary function might be SSL_get_token. Here, given a socket fd, return the SSL object token associated with it.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

New PPCP option to create dump reports without print headers and characters

TPF dump reports are formatted by STPP as a printable file with special print characters and a header on every page reminding the reader of the dump details and current page number.Most dumps today are too big to justify printing, the normal metho...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Variable record hold wait queue depth

today there is a single wait queue threshold depth for all addresses. We have our value set to 100. we have 10 or so databases for which exceeding the limit of 100 is considered normal. We would like to have a variable limit, that is based on the ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enable OpenSSL functionality when CEX Card is not installed

Allow HTTPS, FTPS, SSL connections to TPF when the Crypto Express Card is not defined as an accelerator.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enable I-stream specific SMP entry routing by message prefix ZIS1.

Provide a method to allow the TPF operator to direct SMP Z-entries to a specific named I-stream.This might be implemented by using a message prefix i.e. ZIS1.ZDECB OLD ALL If the user specified i-stream 0 (zero) then TPF should schedule the entry ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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