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z/TPF Product Family

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Include tape ownership details on ZTPLF QUERY ... VSN-... display

Tape ownership in a mutiple cluster GRID linked VTS tape environment is quite an important variable when one of the VTS devices is down or the link between them is not functioning.In this degraded state any tapes owned by the unavailable VTS canno...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add support for SSL_get_fd function

Given an SSL object token, return the fd of the underlying socket or sockets associated with it. Another complimentary function might be SSL_get_token. Here, given a socket fd, return the SSL object token associated with it.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need to see actual addresses of devices that are added/deleted dynamically

CNCE0002I 17.46.27 1 DEVICES ADDED, 0 DEVICES DELETED+CNCE0002I 17.47.07 0 DEVICES ADDED, 1 DEVICES DELETED+ This is the indication you currently get when devices are added/deleted. We would like to see more detail specifically the actual addresse...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

New PPCP option to create dump reports without print headers and characters

TPF dump reports are formatted by STPP as a printable file with special print characters and a header on every page reminding the reader of the dump details and current page number.Most dumps today are too big to justify printing, the normal metho...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Variable record hold wait queue depth

today there is a single wait queue threshold depth for all addresses. We have our value set to 100. we have 10 or so databases for which exceeding the limit of 100 is considered normal. We would like to have a variable limit, that is based on the ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enable OpenSSL functionality when CEX Card is not installed

Allow HTTPS, FTPS, SSL connections to TPF when the Crypto Express Card is not defined as an accelerator.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enable I-stream specific SMP entry routing by message prefix ZIS1.

Provide a method to allow the TPF operator to direct SMP Z-entries to a specific named I-stream.This might be implemented by using a message prefix i.e. ZIS1.ZDECB OLD ALL If the user specified i-stream 0 (zero) then TPF should schedule the entry ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF Tool command support creation of tpf connection

Increase the abilities of TPF Toolkit command line interface to support the creation of a TPF connection along with the ability to create program registration session. Also, to register and unregister a session from the command line.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

ZRECP DUMP processing and Selectice Dump Trace

ZRECP DUMP uses Selective Dump and Trace to dump out relatively small chunks of data for each Lost Address and writes it to the RTL Tape. If the RFE to change the output tape is every acted upon then the code needs to be changed to do some blockin...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Allow CTAL functions to be excluded from C function trace via a user config file

Often C function trace is populated with trivial CTAL function calls that record the fact an application has read a global field, issued a levtest or CINFC call. Some applications call these functions very frequently so often +30% of C function tr...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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