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z/TPF Product Family

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Direct ECB launcher created ECB to desired SS/SSU

TPFUG_Req_Number: V14137ORIGIN DATE: 12/20/2013 REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT Capability to direct launched ECB to desired Sub-system and or Sub-system User. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION Currently launched ECBs only go to main SS and SSU.In an MDBFC environment...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

V14141 TVP Set up Debugging to multiple packages

TPFUG_Req_Number: V14141ORIGIN DATE: 2/11/2013REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT Set up the debugger to handle multiple packages such as EW* and ET* REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION In the debugger registration Session panel, allow multiple groups with a an asterisk to ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

V14145 TVP Allow for normal Windows copy/paste

TPFUG_Req_Number: V14145ORIGIN DATE: 2/11/2014REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT Allow for normal Windows copy/paste REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION Same as abstract. SOLUTION CONSIDERATIONS Modify the TPF Debugger in z/TPF as required and in the TPF Toolkit as required.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Start Debug Based on Data Level

TPFUG_Req_Number: V14136ORIGIN DATE: 10/4/2013REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT (required) Start debug session based on contents pointed to by data level. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION (required) The customer was interested in starting a debug session based on a com...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should allow the aggregation of smaller tables into one large super table or a table of tables

CRUISE should allow aggregation of smaller tables into one large super table or a table made up of other tables. This would allow multiple tables to be run as a single job from start to finish. Instead of taking REF-ID parameters as input, the Sup...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition. A running CRUISE table has the potential to hang or get stuck in a sort of deadlock situation. The maximum allowed ECB's have already been created. One or more ECB's may need...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a facility to execute functions at the system level, e.g. full system CAPTURE

Provide new system level functions, e.g. CAPTURE type. This would scan through the entire ID range from the beginning to the end, to chain-chase each of the ID's in the DBDEF table. This is similar to what RECOUP does. Providing functions for syst...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the CRUISE cross-reference file processing and handling options

There are several considerations in how the CRUISE cross-reference files are allocated and used. In addition to the need to improving the performance which has been addressed in other RFEs, there are other enhancements that would provide more flex...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable SNA polling

Would like to eliminate or reduce the background noise created by SNA polling which is currently activated a minimum of 20 times per second.The RVTSCAN process is scheduled in ctme.cpy by adding an SWB to the ready list which initiates a call to C...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

We would like a mechanism for resetting all of our sender channels sequence numbers.

When we get into a situation where we know the sequence numbers of all channels have been compromised, would it be possible to have an entry to reset the sequence number on all sender channels? This would be helpful on our test systems after a res...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration