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z/TPF Product Family

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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...
almost 11 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...
almost 11 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.
almost 11 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...
almost 11 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...
almost 11 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.
almost 11 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.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

IN A RSE FTP CONNECTION TO zVM, ADD FILTER TO SELECT THE ATTACHED DISK

THE ATTACHED DISK TO A zVM USER ARE NOT VISIBLE BY A FTP CONNECTION.BY DEFAULT, ONLY THE FILTER TO THE A DISK COULD BE CREATED, BUT IT SHOULD BE POSIBLE TO ADD FILTER ON ALL ATTACHED DISKS
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

GDS 64K cylinder restriction

With GDS support you are limited to 64K cylinders (2 byte field) per dataset. This maxes out at a 46G file. This restriction needs to be lifted due to increasing file size.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Hold low priority SIPCC items until 1052 state.

Hold the processing of low priority IPC items until the system reaches 1052 state. In our loosely-coupled systems, particularly in PSS we had experienced application SIPCC items which come from up and running processors interfering the system IPL....
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 2 Not under consideration

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