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GDS 64K cylinder restriction

With GDS support you are limited to 64K cylinders (2 byte field) per dataset. This maxes out at a 46G file. This restriction needs to be lifted due to increasing file size.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Hold low priority SIPCC items until 1052 state.

Hold the processing of low priority IPC items until the system reaches 1052 state. In our loosely-coupled systems, particularly in PSS we had experienced application SIPCC items which come from up and running processors interfering the system IPL....
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

User area in SS clock record (#IBMMS, ordinal #ST0TMON)

HP zTPF systems have a few global fields that contain next Spring and Fall time change day. Tens of Sabre APPS use these fields along with today's date (@U1DAY) to determine if today belongs in DST or not. It is hard to pursue Sabre to change thei...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

New TPFDF DBCLS option DETAC_NORELEASE to allow reuse of a DETAC chain

This enhancement is for a new option on the TPFDF DBCLS macro, similar to the DFCLS_NORELEASE but it would also retain any DETAC chains and reuse them when the next DBOPN is issued on that file, provided that DBOPN also uses DETAC and NOHOLD optio...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications

When debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications if the parent ECB has a EVMWC code and is waiting for the child to post an to the event. If we set the parent ECB running – we will get timeout from EVNWC and the application does not behave c...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

indication number of broken chains for onel exceeded after message recp0410i

After message recp0410i the zrecp onel display does not indicate that more broken chains were found than reported in the onel. Even better would be to report the exact number of broken chains found, even though only the first xxx are actually logg...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support for ZVFAC USAGE FA RECID=0000 entry

Data collections show almost 1% of VFA reads are for record ID x'0000', this is a default bucket for records that don't have a RIAT definition, one of these is ID'00EB' accessed by CVAA from #IBMM4 ordinal #IFMSG (0x4B). This ID was only found by ...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

debugger bct trap

The customer is asking for a debugger enhance that would allow then to trap on the first instruction outside of a BCT loop , whether it's due todue to branching out or by falling through the BCT loop
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Extend the C++ remote editor automatic search of occurrences

The C++ remote editor automatic search of occurrences (obtained by a click or double click) works only with simple variables. Function, elements pointed are ignored.See examples.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

SYSTEM LPEX EDITOR: Automatic comment block improvement

The system LPEX editor cannot comment a bloc of lines of an asm file when it contains one line with 71 characters length.In that case, it comments only the last line of the block
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 6 Not under consideration

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