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z/TPF Product Family

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Support multiple zHTTP/zREST Provider Servers with each addressable by unique port number

1. Support multiple zHTTP/zREST Servers with each addressable by unique port number 2. Usage of z/TPF REST API (zREST) Services is growing rapidly. 3. With the growth of zREST URLs, multiple versions of zREST Services Traffic Volumes 4. It has be...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Optimize zREST URL Mapping Table Look up during zREST Processing

1. Optimize z/REST URL Mapping Table Look up during zREST inbound request message processing. 2. Usage of new zREST services is growing quickly along with support of multiple backward compatible versions of the same. Each version has a separate U...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

zREST zSwagger zDFDL Processing needs an option to process in 64 bit Heap rather than the default 31 bit heap

1. When zREST zSwagger zDFDL sorts unsorted JSON Properties into sorted order it needs an option to process using 64 bit Heap rather than the default 31 bit heap. a. 31 bit Heap is a more "scarce resource" b. The zREST Descriptor configuration ...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow format 2 global's to be increased in size

IBM suggested adding a size parameter to the functional input:ZGLBL GLOBAL INITIALIZE SOURCE-GLOBAL FROMGLOBAL-globalname SIZE-size In addition, the prototype would lock the global and get it from memory if the from global has the same attributes ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

ZMEAS Qnnnn 4 digit limit is too small

Trying to use the ZMEAS Qnnnn entry to tune the RTC queue depth. However it only supports 4 digits and we need at least 5 (10000 represents approximately 1 second of RTC activity). I believe the global itself may be a double word.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

ZVFAC counters are wrapping too quickly

We are pushing 3-4 million I/Os per second through the VFA subsystem. The real time messages are used on a time initiated basis (58 mins) to align with other displays. The counters used by the ZVFAC entry are wrapping too quickly so we get bad dat...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Delivered

z/TPF Signal Events can run the system out of resources.

When using the z/TPF Signal Events software the system can run out of SWB resources. The current Signal events don't do enough resource checking while processing the dispatch queue. The use of a dispatch queue, where many small events can be queue...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TPF Dump Viewer subsystem in toolkit 4.6

TPF Dump Viewer subsystem is removed from new Toolkit 4.6 This feature was very useful for us, do you intend to add it again, or replace it by similar feature ?
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Enhance the functionality in the new HTTP Client which is based on the High Speed Connector

Enhance the new HTTP Client based on the High Speed Connector. 1). Add individual session display for a given endpoint group. 2). Show queueing to the existing endpoint group. Would also be nice to see if specific sessions are queueing. Overall st...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Filtered Collection Query by ObjectId

Add an option in the configuration for Filtered Collections to allow queries by just the original Object ID (file address).
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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