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z/TPF Product Family

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Debugger system heap view does not support gsysc token naming convention

IBM apar PJ42752 does not support system heap tokens that contain spaces. TPF Toolkit currently only supports alphanumeric characters although when defining a system heap token there is nothing in the IBM documentation about the non-use of space c...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

CPSA restriction on nodupl dumps .

Looping CPSA dumps can lead to system performance. This request is to remove the CPSA restriction on nodupl dumps .
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Increase read() low water mark level to be higher that 64k

With the message sizes increasing the read() low water mark level needs to be increased. This was updated to 64k with PJ41245 requesting that this value be increased further .The values are defined in cts5 as sndlowat and rcvlowat..
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPFDF encryption for data at rest

Requesting z/TPFDF product provide support for encryption of data at rest.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

TPF support of HPF under VM

TPF test systems need to mirror production systems wherever possible. TPF only supports HPF on a native system. The majority of TPF testing is done under VM, where TPF does not support HPF. VM does support HPF
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TPF Support of new dasd features on non RCS dasd

Dasd features such as Prefix ccw's, HPF and HPAV are only supported by TPF on DASD with RCS. RCS is no longer needed and should not restrict our use of the features available on the dasd.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add support to the ZPUBK REQCERT command for SHA-2 certificates. Include as part of upgraded version of OpenSSL in PUT13

For certificate requests, the ZPUBK REQCERT command contains support for the SHA1 and MD5 digest algorithms, but we will need to add support for the SHA-256 hash algorithm to enable certificates created on z/TPF to be signed with the SHA-256 hash ...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Support SHA-256 on ZPUBK commands

The industry is deprecating SHA1 - it is no longer considered "secure enough". Even self-signed certificates created on ZTPF will be problematic after January 1, because the major browser vendors are going to start popping up warnings about SHA-1 ...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

problem with trying to open include from outline perspective.

problem with trying to open include from outline perspective. please see attached email regarding further details on this.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Need additional protection for Page/Segment table

HP is requesting that the Page/Segment table be more protected so that ECBs running with protect key 0 cannot corrupt it. HP has experienced EVM page table corruption in one of our production environments (multiple times now), which is what prompt...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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