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z/TPF Product Family

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Logical Record Cache Management (3 of 3) - Need a counter of 'valid entries'

Need a counter of 'valid entries', the current in use counter basically devolves to all the allocated items after a few days (and includes aged-out entries), therefore it provides no useful information. Valid Entries tell me the utilization of the...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Recoverable system heap storage

Need to manage caches like we manage format 2 globals with them coming online at cycle up rather than at the point of first use and being more-or-less ready to go by being pre-populated with saved (e.g. keypointed) data. This is a cache so doesn't...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

zREST zDFDL to suport zDFDL expression for the Code Page Encoding Attribute (and DFDL variable for operationId)

z/TPF's zDFDL transformation needs a parameter to specify Code Page of the target transformed object so that EBCDIC 1047, subset of P1024 Terminal Characters in EBCDIC 1047, and UTF-8. This would avoid loading multiple zSwagger Files and zREST Sys...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

API Required for Random Number Generation on zTPF

Currently IBM has provided SHA-1 and SHA-256 APIs for use under zTPF. For example, we have tpf_SHA256_digest() function calls. There is now support (via PRNO assembler instruction) on TPF to generate pseudo and true random numbers. We'd like IBM t...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

z/TPF Country Centric Data Processing

Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers; Travelport, Amex and SABRE, desire an implementation of z/TPF where multiple cross linked z/TPF Systems can selectively host select z/TPF Data in specific Countries b. The implementation will help fu...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Logical Cache Management Changes - ability to resize caches

Tying into the PMR, to request additional features of LRC.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Multiple service definitions in the same service descriptor file

Multiple service definitions in the same service descriptor file. It would allow to create and load on z/TPF array with service definitions in one service descriptor file. With that solution only on *.srvc.json and *.sar file would be necessary pe...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Extend the number of file id slots in the recoup statistics subfile

It appears that the gr26sr recoup stats subfile is limited to 17 file IDs (slots). We have a top level index file which addresses multiple databases and indexes 35 subfiles, either directly or indirectly. As a result we have 19 subfiles which have...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

SON POOL DIRECTORY UPDATE ECB CREATE CONTROL

During pool directory update, program DYDU uses IBMBATCH lodic class to control number of child ecbs to be created. Our IBMBATCH value for ECBs is 70 percent. We have 8650 ecbs defined. DYDU uses CREMC to create child ecbs. This results in signifi...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

DIAG dump or informational message for Common Blocks

We have an issue within our PSS Loosely Coupled Environment where we have very busy activity in different periods of the day, and as a result, the size of the Ready List (as well as CROSS at times) is increased by Common Block. Our Common Block is...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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