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z/TPF Product Family

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Request for USER FIELD TWO in IDSXFC

Control Transfer Block (IDSXFC) currently contains a USER FIELD ONE (XFCUSER) that is defined as a fullword at displacement X'A8'. The next field is XFCEVNAM that is defined as a doubleword at displacement X'B0'. We are interested in utilizing the...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance ZIDOT DISP Storage for Dump display

This enhancement is to provide: !) Easy dump size vislbility per keyword assigned to dump numbers via normal ZIDOT DISP Storage "dump name" entry 2) Provide potential total size of dump. Size could be Max and Min values depending on keywords (such...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Process tape queue in between dumps

In the case of excessive dumping, we would like to see a change where IBM will drain or process some of the tape queue in between each dump. IBM reviewed this request in the past, indicated that they agree with this need, and requested an RFE be o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Preserve DBA and dumps when force deac is done

HP has various scenarios where there is a need to force deac a processor, and in those cases, we'd like to preserve the dumps. With streaming dumps, or a processor hang, as well as in the case of a catastrophic dump, it typically makes sense in ou...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

TPFAR DDM limit and version.

This includes two enhancements request for TPFAR. 1) Some programs have too many columns to insert/update to allow a run time bind. The maximum DDM commands for TPFAR is 100. A program doing an INSERT/UPDATE for up to 94 columns, with static bindi...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Socket connect() user exit

Would like to be able to interrogate and possibly take action on particular connect() return codes for certain IP destinations.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

CDC enhancement to the CDC_PREDEFINED_USER_DATA collector.

CDC and the Tivoli monitor agent provide an excellent way to collect and monitor TPF system performance and status data. We would like to make use of this facility to collect and monitor Marriott metrics. The current design of the user data collec...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

Allow CRUISE to reallocate TPFDF database primes using Capture / Restore procedure

To reduce pool chaining in a highly accessed TPFDF database we would like to reallocate the prime records from their 1K face type to a 4K face type.The CRUISE RESTORE can only restore records to the original FARF addresses used by the CAPTURE proc...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

RAVEN Auto Message and Auto Send need mixed case support

The RAVEN commands AUTO MSG <message text> and AUTO SEND ... <command> need to support mixed case text for <message text> and <command> because z/TPF commands such as the file system commands support mixed case.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

ZRECP DUMP ecb value needs to be tunable

The ZRECP DUMP process is a heavy resource user. The Max ECB level needs to be tunable. The exising max of 250 ECBs is too high for some systems. No two TPF systems run the same, and we need the ability to tune this accordingly.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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