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z/TPF Product Family

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Access Traditional TPF Databases with MongoDB API

Enhancement to z/TPF MongoDB API to accept and process mongo functions against non-TPFDF databases by utilizing the tdbi collection descriptor.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Track the number of heap requests and releases for AVL1-5 per ECB

Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of ECB heap requests (malloc/calloc/ralloc) for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of releases of ECB heap for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add the new counters to ZMOWN.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Planned for future release

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a ways to see both control and location information for RSH buffers

PJ45598 provided support for recoverable system heap. The support allows for a request for recoverable system heap to be serviced from 64 bit system heap if there isn't enough room in the preallocated RSH area. ZDSHP FIND displays information abou...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Notify user when large files are corrupted by RSE

On occasion, RSE may corrupt or partially write out large files. Could RSE be enhanced such that, after a file transfer is complete, it performs a checksum on both sides, compares the result, and if corruption is detected, notify the user.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Wizard to import RSE connection definitions, Debug profiles, projects, etc from an old workspace directory.

A lot of user set up is contained in a workspace, it is desirable to be able to import configurations from old workspaces.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views to have a right click "copy block contents to clipboard" action.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

MQ Trace needs some improvements for better Customer support

During an issue where we needed to provide IBM with MQ traces we had a difficult time getting these. Having to take the RTA and mount on a linux system doesn't work for us, so we had to copy the VTS RTA tape to a VTAPE volume and to use on Linux i...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Populate ICOW owner ID with C-O-W program exception address

Currently there is no tool to identify the exact location of a Copy on Write exception only the program name.This suggestion involves a three line update in CPSE to add the COW exception program old PSW address as the low order owner ID of the XMB...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Native IpV6 support on ZTPF

ORIGINATOR: Chevelle Strobel, Alex Renko chevelle.strobel@irs.gov, alexander.p.renko@irs.gov, REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT z/TPF needs to support an IP Version 6 stack in parallel with IPv4 since the computing industry is moving in that direction. REQUIRE...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

build a TPF specific code scanner for RTC Enterprise Extensions

The OOTO asm scanner that is provided with RTC Enterprise Extensions - Impact Analysis does not account for zTPF specific type of dependencies.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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