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z/TPF Product Family

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Introduce Message Handlers for IBM REST Provider and Consumer

Similar to SOAP Message Handler support for provider and consumer web services, introduce the same concept for the IBM's z/TPF REST Provider and Consumer services.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

PJ44927 ZEXEC enhancements

At Travelport, we have run into two issues using the ZEXEC function. ZEXEC processing defaults to having the entry submitted complete processing within 30 seconds. This is not always possible which causes ZEXEC processing to terminate early. We re...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Require a 64 Bit Java TOS Client

Java 9 does not have a 32 bit version We are currently on Java 8 but it is clear that migration to Java 9 is imminent.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

Would like to include RECID in ZDRHT display

Currently HP has a unique rechord hold display entry that we'd like to sunset, however the dispaly from the entry contains the record id of the lock held. Example: ZUCDH 01« CSMP0097I 10.34.13 CPU-H SS-BSS SSU-AA IS-01 PRIME TABLE ADDR: 0D7C1048 O...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Improve CCCPSE156I messages

When the dump buffer gets full CCCPE starts sending dump messages indicating dump xxxx going to tape. IT would be nice to know what type of dump this is (ctl-3 , ctl-38 etc). In a situation where we are streaming dumps we have no idea what type of...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

Lightweight HTTP Server Upgrades

There are a series of missing features ranked in priority order without which the product is not currently usable.Missing Features:1) Chunked Encoding.2) HTTP 1.0 Support.3) SSL Support4) Full RESTful APIs( 4+2 HTTP APIs)5) AoR 8 byte parameter ar...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Digital signature

Update the z/TPF sign and verify digest to support the latest hash algorithms (SHA256)
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Delivered

Simplify DFDL definitions to have greater control of published data

1. Prevent optional fields from being published if structure is not populated with data2. Allow partially populated array to be published
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

DFDL option when to publish elements.

Would like a simple way using DFDL to choose whether to publish elements all the time (which is by default), or only if it contains a non-default value. This should also then apply to arrays in which trailing items containing default values are no...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

New 8 byte SW00SR field to store timestamp

Can we get an 8 byte field in the SW00SR specifically to store a timestamp of when a file is brought into core? We can then use DFUEX to code a user exit to save that time stamp under certain specific conditions? All we need is the 8 byte slot in ...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered