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z/TPF Product Family

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ZDECB display sort enhancements

Request to add a ZDECB display option to show short lived ECBs first.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Increase max ordinals per chain chase ECB (RANGE Option)

The max interval of ordinals Recoup can chain chase per root ECB is 65535. This is very beneficial when chain chasing wide/shallow structures. Increasing this maximum would allow Recoup runtimes to further benefit from this support.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Leverage Spare bits in FARF6 Addressing to support wider DBs

Currently 32 bits are reserved for a variable size ordinal number in an 8 Byte FARF6 address. With this layout, a FARF6 fixed file face type can have at max 4,294,967,294 ordinals allocated. There are currently spare bits available in the addressi...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Additional ZRECP LONG support to avoid long running behavior when Long Chain Detection thresholds are set too low

Recently during a system outage a Recoup was necessary to validate the integrity of our Database once the system was back up. As part of normal Recoup procedures a ZRECP LONG display entry is made to view logs of DF Files that contain subfiles tha...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Not under consideration

Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swaggers and zDFDL after loading zEV and zREST APARs

1. After loading of certain APARS associated with z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) and z/TPF REST API (zREST) processing it is required that Swaggers and zDFDL be reloaded using the ZOLDR. 2. Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swagger...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQClient Using z/TPF Priority Socket

Z/TPF has the capability to use priority TCP/IP sockets to select socket consumers. An MQ Client consumer external to a Provider z/TPF Systems needs the ability to fetch MQ messages from a local z/TPF MQ Queue while it's input list is in shut down...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

RIP Replacement for z/Systems Open Systems Network Interface

1. Cisco is indicating that it is apparently retiring the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) from its routers/switches, z/TPF needs a replacement such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). 2. The most recent addition of Cisco's most recent switch to...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MRD( Multiple Release Detection) enhancement

Requesting two enhancements to the MRD ( IBM for the Multiple Release Detection package) The first request would be to make the timestamp more granular for the release data by changing it from hh:mm to hh:mm:ss. The second request would be to have...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Cross-processor Short Term Pool Return & Pool Directory Update

Allow short term pool directories to be updated by any processor in a z/TPF loosely-coupled complex to prevent lost short term pool and accelerated re-dispensing of pool causing improper re-use of pool currently in use by another LNIATA AAA.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Host Connecion Emulator Session missing from Toolkit 4.6

I am in charge of migrating TPF Toolkit from version 4.2.11 to version 4.6 and there is major functionnality that missing : Host Connecion Emulator Session. Most of our developers use this feature to connect to the TPF machine and perform tests. A...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

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