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z/TPF Product Family

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TPF Toolkit shutdown user exit.

User exit needed to run a clean up or installation bat file when the TPF Toolkit is shut down.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

: Remote Console hex view

Could the remote console be enhanced to provide a hex view/editor of the content to allow the user to view and possibly correct non-printable characters?
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 2 Not under consideration

Telnet interface in Toolkit

Could a Putty or similar interface to linux be integrated into the TPF Toolkit. Maybe there is something in Eclipse or another IBM product that could be leveraged over and above our existing shell.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Create a trace route function that uses ICMP

Currently there is trace route functionality on z/TPF that uses UDP. We have had difficulty using this since our firewall routers discard the UDP packets and the trace route does not complete properly. We are asking that another trace route utilit...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Add Queue Manager name to SOAP Descriptor Table

In the Soap Deployment descriptor we can only define a Queue Name where the message should be sent to. We have the need to be able to also define the Queue Manager name in this table. If we can only define the queue name, then we would have to def...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CINFC table display ZDCNF enhancement request

For the zTPF CINFC display function ZDCNF, CPS0 must be rebuilt (CCNUCL) and loaded for ZDCNF to pick up new tags which means we need to load a CP on a TLD for CINFC changes.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Log nodumps to dump data exit

Allow our Online Dump Facility to also log nodump SERRCs to its database.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance /etc/iprules to also firewall outbound connections

etc/iprules firewall can restrict inbound 'FROM' connections if desired but there is no restriction on outbound 'TO' connections. It would help us in implementing new systems to be able to also restrict outbound connections and in effect have an a...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

would like to see fsck display the inode numbers in both dec and hex

The zfile ls –ali entry responds with the inode directory # for each directory & file and it is given in decimal format. However, to do a zdrec linode.n, you want ordinal number in hex. In contrast, results from a zfile fsck run displays the h...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Add MQ functionality to zTPF - MRTMR and MRRTY

Asking for a standard retry mechanisms be added to the z/TPF MQ product.Here is what is requested: Channel parameters affecting message retry Message Retry Interval - MRTMR - Default(1000) - The minimum time in milliseconds that must pass before t...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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