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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

New User Exit for DBCLS

We would like a new user exit case that can be used at DBCLS.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 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...
over 10 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 ...
over 10 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
over 10 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)
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Move WGTA tables above the 2g Bar

Request is to move the WGTA tables above the 2g bar in order to free up valuable space below the BAR Current allocation is 1.4 million entries today .
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 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...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without naming a table

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without having to set up a table for this purpose. Currently every CRUISE function requires a table be created first. The VERIFY could kick off as soon as the entry is made, or it...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE logs should include the list of tape volumes created or used by a parameter table

CRUISE should include a list of capture tape volumes created by a Capture or restored by a parameter table. Currenlty, no log or record is kept of the tape volumes generated during the capture. The information has to be obtained from the console l...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

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