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Toolkit 4.2 on MS Server 2008

Would like to see TPF Toolkit work on Microsoft Server 2008.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Support MQ Compression on z/TPF

As more and more data is being shared with remote applications using MQ the need for data compression is increasing. We are requesting that the support for MQ compression as provided in MQ version 6 and 7 be added to the z/TPF MQ server installati...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Tracelog should include resource consumption count analysis

Improved tooling is required to benchmark resource consumption for a specific application path beyond mere clock or processing time. The Performance Analyzer breaks down time spent in various code modules and the number of calls made etc to identi...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Toolkit debugger should differentiate between trace and dump view sessions

The TPF Toolkit debugger does not differentiate between a trace thread and a dump view thread as each contains debug data, so both threads are all labelled "Incoming Remote Debug session".This causes confussion if the user has some old dump view t...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Windows 2012 Server Support for TOS

What is the official IBM position regarding running TOS under Windows Server 2012?
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Delivered

Expand user lodic classes

6 user lodic classes are insufficient for all user definitions. An additional 8 are requested.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

selectivity apply apars

Selectivity apply apars for fixes has become more difficult in the z/TPF build process in the way libcpoco.a is build. The build of libcpoco.anow crosses more functional area so the drag of prereq apars becomes impossible to manage. It most cases ...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Not enough LibVec entries for exported functions.

The number of functions that may be exported by a program is fixed at IPL time, as the number of functions being exported by the baseline version of the program * 2 (room for growth). Room for growth is the maximum number of new functions that may...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Take advantage of SSD performance in TPF DASD utility parms

We have mods in our zTPF systems that allow more TPF mod Copies per cpu/complex and reduce the minimum wait IOTIME for TPF Capture.These changes were made when we went to SSD so that we could fully utilize the performance improvements in our envir...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Recoup chain chase needs to handle wide/shallow databases

Recoup congestion on IRART CORHC when chain chasing wide/shallow databases caps recoup's ability to run at the MAX ECB rate defined and means there is no way to manage or improve chain chase runtimes. The congestion on the IRART is due to the fact...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered