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z/TPF Product Family

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message when dumps are not added to dump viewer

Customer is asking for more information either a message or reason code why a dump was not added to the dump database. For example no ECB, R9 not pointing to an ECB etc.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Remove Channel Redrive from ZSTAT ENVIRON

ZSTAT ENVIRON is displaying TPFMODE inconsistently. After some IPL's its YES and some NO.Requesting IBM fix it or remove it. IBM inclined to remove it because TPFMODE not critical for FICON.IBM needs RFE to make that change.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Allow for lower retransmit timer values for zTPF sockets

We are experiencing issues with subsequent retransmissions on dropped packets when fast retransmission is not used and if the packet still does not get delivered on the first retransmission a subsequent retransmission takes 7 seconds to kick off w...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Provide access to pending CMR3 and RLCH ECB counters

PJ40779 added support to track the number of pending CMR3 and RLCH ECBs per i/stream using counters located in ccnucl. We would like an ENTRY point to be defined for both the CMR3 and RLCH counter areas so that code in other CP csects (user exit c...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Allow a lower RTO minimum value for zTPF client socket connections

For z/TPF client socket connections where the pattern is one message out, one message in (meaning TCP fast retransmit processing would never trigger) and the application level timeout is subsecond, the customer request is to allow a lower RTO mini...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

z/TPFDF Cache

Requesting change to put z/TPFDF subfiles in a memory cache when they are accessed read-only.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

NoSQL Access to z/TPF TPFDF Databases

Create NoSQL client product that will provide access to update and retrieve information from a z/TPFDF database within a z/TPF system.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Support NODUMP option for all dumps in z/TPFDF

The NODUMP option is supported for a small number of system errors only. By explicitly coding the NODUMP option on the APIs we would like to code error processing more specifically depending on the transaction by issuing own system errors or by ot...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

OPENSOURCE CODE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Opensource code performance improvements are needed in CPP1 to eliminate unnecessary copy-on-write during shared object initialization, plus improve performance of strchr/memchr and string.h.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Inhibit DB011B and DB0108 dumps in MOD down condition

PM97115 was recently released to inhibit DB0100 dumps in a MOD down scenario. We would like the same for DB011B and DB0108 dumps when MOD down. The DB0100 dumps that were eliminated with PM97115 had been involved with a system outage 08/05/13 - th...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered