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z/TPF Product Family

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ZPTCH improvements

Customer is asking for improvements to zpatch to prevent system issue;The issue appears to be the possibility of inadvertently applying core updates after filing the 20 allowed ZPTCH patch deck slots. The core updates happen because the process al...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement to not show a echo of ZOLDR DISPLAY entries on the prime cras

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the ZOLDR DISPLAY entries. Could you please suppress the echo on the prime crass for the ZOLDR DISPLAY command ?It's just a display, safe for the system. Thank you for your cooperation. Regards,François Bodelet...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Allow for sub-second SSL_write when using Shared CTX

Since Shared CTX SSL_write() is always blocking from an application perspective, we must rely on the socket send timeout (SO_SNDTIMEO) to get control back should an event occur such as insufficient send buffer space. SO_SNDTIMEO is only granular t...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the FCAP0008I output message

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the FCAP0008I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well:FCAP0008I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON 0C21 - STARTEDwhere xxxxxx=tape VSN. Thank you for y...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ZRECP DISPLAY LOST and ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON

TPFUG_Req_Number: D13010ORIGIN DATE: April 22,2013REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT : Enhance ZRECP DISPLAY LOST and ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON to support a PGM parameter and a SKIP parameter. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION : Provide a functional entry that will display los...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ZTPF - Recoup option to compare P & D and report mismatch - also parm to copy one to the other.

Optional Parm for Recoup to COMPARE Prime & Dupe copy and report mismatches. This option should have a secondary PARM which when requested applies the selected copy to the other.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB updates and DF manages Sequence Numbers

TPF MongDB updates should use the DF manages sequence number, if defined. The enforcement of the sequence number use should be configurable at a system and table level. Knowledge of the DF sequence number should not need to be known by the client ...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Configurable limit on TPF MongoDB Responses

The ability to configure an upper limit to the size of a response returned by the TPF MongoDB server. The administrator should have the ability to set 3 different limits.1) A system wide limit2) A table specific limit3) A user account limit.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Remove keyword ICLH from dumps

Remove keyword ICLD (CLH block management tables) from the dumps to reduce the size.
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Optimize macro trace and function trace buffer allocation

Could IBM review the effect of trace buffer allocation on system performance?Currently both the macro trace and function traces are split between regular and extended buffers, so any update requires access to storage in two different cache lines.B...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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