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z/TPF Product Family

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Allow MQ client on TPF to issue a get with wait to a remote server without causing an ECB to be suspended on TPF waiting for

Currently when an ECB on TPF uses the MQ client to get a message from a queue on a remote server the ECB is suspended if there are no messages on the queue to give back to the application. If there are a large number of queues that are being servi...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Opening FARF6 address space to other record types - on behalf of HP

Opening FARF6 address space to other record types
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

2 Gig limitation - on belhalf of HP

Want the limitation of the 2Gig line eliminated
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Delivered

Need support for extended VSAM clusters and also VFA Long Length Record

Need to house extended VSAM cluster in VFA.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

z/TPF should support 255 secondary DASD extents for VSAM

z/TPF currently supports only 16 extents but the z/OS standard is 255.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Data Events

Data Eventing for zTPF
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

TPFDF data collection integration

The TPFDF data collection statistics are only available on TPF. The inforation needs to be integrated into the normal TPF data collection flow and reports to allow easy access by TPF performance personal. Having to look at two different platforms ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 5 Delivered

FIND SVC count

For a TPFDF file count all FIND type SVC calls and record in the DBIFB. Also, provide a user exit at file close time to allow the user to collect this count and perform a user action.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Delivered

TCP header display truncated in IPTPRT output

SYN packets with multiple TCP options may exceed the apparent 28-byte limitation in the IPTPRT output. An example is: TCP HEADER A45A1C84 625B3E6E 00000000 A0024600 7F2F0000 02042300 0402080A The last 2-bytes indicate a "timestamp and exch of prev...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered

PJ41171 - INETD SSL Model for z/TPF

Internet Daemon (INETD) support needs to provide an SSL model that will manage servers that want to use shared SSL session support in z/TPF.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Delivered