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z/TPF Product Family

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z/TPFDF displays should handle 9-digit ordinal numbers

Several TPFDF displays do not handle 9 digit ordinals
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

DF12198 Multi-LREC Buffer Allow Record Access

TPFUG_Req_Number: DF12198ORIGIN DATE: 10/23/2012REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT (required) Allow access to LRECs read by Multi LREC Buffer. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION (required) Allow access to LRECs read by Multi LREC Buffer. CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS (optional...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Code Coverage Merge

The Code Coverage Tool needs to be able to merge the session results. This will allow users to have a better understanding of how much of their code has been executed. Need to provide users a cumulative view of how much code has been executed afte...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Increase flexibility of ZOLDR ACT support for maximum number of new functions that can be added to shared object

Shared objects have to be split or remove functions from since there is a limit on the amount of slots available by LIBVEC. The number of slots available is not known until after code is added and the link to the shared object is done. It is frust...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

TPF Toolkit OLDR loading and re-loading

As a TPF developer I often find the OLDR load procedures rather laborious, especially when debugging new code that requires frequent updating and re-testing.<br /> <br />This request/idea is for a single TPF entry to perform the i...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

Eliminate an SSL daemon recycle on ZOLDR ACCEPT

Online loads (ZOLDR) that require a bounce of SSL to be activated,require an unnecessary second bounce of SSL for the loadset to beaccepted.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Enhance ZODBR ACCEPT processing to reorder the pool sections associated with pool record types moved.

Enhance ZODBR ACCEPT processing to reorder the pool sections that are associated with the pool record types that are moved during the ODBR session. The pool sections need to be reordered to update pool directory control information that is used by...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Allow the ZDFCT command to display information from the inactive FCTB

To assist the customer in managing record allocations on their online zTPF system, they would like to have an online  functional command to display record type attributes from both the current/active and Inactive FCTBs.  This w...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

RELFC API for TPFDF

IBM database manager TPFDF should be able to support the new RELFC functionality to check IDs prior to release. This support should be implemented such that it allows for control at a database structure and optionally application level. It must al...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Improve the performance of ZODBR LOAD track validation

As part of ZODBR LOAD a list of records being moved is created (OMST). From this list of records to be moved a list of tracks that data is moving to is created. A single ECB is used to verify the format of the tracks that data is moving to. The lo...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered