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z/TPF Product Family

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Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

FIND & HOLD (FINHC) and FIND HOLD & WAIT (FIWHC) additional exit points & WAIT

Applications don't always know held records status and need additional guidance. For both FIWHC (and FINHC macros) - add an additional new exit. In the execution of FIND and it's been determined the record is HELD in this processor's hold table - ...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

RequestSupport multiple SSL certificates based on the URL name.

Under current INETD SSL server model, all customer URLs have to be included in a single certificate if default HTTPS port number is used. Obtaining and maintaining multiple customer domains in a single certificate is very difficult task for severa...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Request options to suppress SSL HANDSHAKE ERRORs on the TPF console.

SSL HANDSHAKE ERRORs on the console can occur as frequently as 2 messages per minute. When a client accesses the HTTPS server using an uncertified URL or an IP address those error messages are generated on the console. For SSL servers with many cl...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

snapc and wtopc baseless

Customer is asking that both the snapc and wtopc macro be made baseless to support application that are being written with baseless in mind. Here's an example of an application error.00001364 28768+ DS 0H Align @411.074 01-SNAPC00001364 AF02 0000 ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ZSVTT entry will not validate spares for fixed records

We can only validate fixed records and pool records but NOT spare records. Sabre doesn't use the alternate FCTB loader so I'm concerned that we have to IPL the system (downtime if it's a single processor) to load a second FCTB just to validate the...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ENQC support and provide greater visibility/alerting into the number of ECBs waiting on events

1) There is no means currently for an application to know how many ECBs are waiting on a resource. This means that applications have only two processing options for ENQC 1) if they get the resource or 2) if they don't get the resource. Additional ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Clean up after search

After doing a search, when deleting results from the "Search" view, the last search result is always left behind
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy and paste a path into the edit source lookup

Edit source lookup for remote folder is a "graphical interface" (i.e. a browse tree) at the moment... want a way to enter a remote folder as a path (i.e. need a text field)
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Detect attempts to extend size of Application Stack storage beyond ESPS limit

Attempts to extend Application Stack storage beyond the ESPS limit are not currently detected or handled directly; the stack pointer is set to what should be the new address, but the storage is not mapped. Processing in this scenario inevitably tr...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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