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z/TPF Product Family

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Please validate TPF Operations Server (TOS) on Windows 2022

We are trying to make some new servers for our TOS installation, and there is a push for us to use Windows 2012 in order to put off the inevitable next upgrade upgrade a little longer. Could it be ready before January 2023?
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Delivered

(TPFUG) Support tpf_STCKE_to_timet and tpf_timet_to_STCKE

The tpf_STCK_to_timet and tpf_timet_to_STCK APIs convert an 8 byte TOD format used by STCK/STCKF to a time_t and vice versa. But the 8 byte TOD format will wrap in 2042. As part of the strategy to remediate existing date problems and avoid new one...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Proxy Use to Enhanced HTTP Client

Access external web service from within a protected network and limiting security scope with proxy server instead of direct access. We are deploying applications to the cloud and need to access them from our z/TPF system through a proxy.
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) Provide notification if zTPF is brought up in a cross-drawer i-stream config

If zTPF runs such that the hardware layout of its CPs is cross-drawer there can be significant performance penalties. Even though capacity plans and hardware upgrades can ensure no cross-drawer configurations are actually necessary, there is alway...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

z/TPF MQ Multi Channel Support

Headline: MQ Multi Channel Support 2. Lead Contact: john.prictoe@citi.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Citibank and Travelport desire an implementation of z/TPF MQ Support multiple MQ channel paths to a...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

DB0101 dump should contain pointer to bad lrec

In production we most often run with no macro or system traces active. Would request that DB0101 dumps either contain some register which is addressing the LREC which has an invalid length, or even update SW00REC with a pointer to the bad LREC.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Application performance analysis tooling

Performance analysis (run-time) tools are required to identify performance bottlenecks & other critical statistics early in the software development life cycle where they are cheaper to find & fix. They help developers tune an application ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Data reduction should be moved to Linux

The offline data reduction program DATAREAD is currently writtein in PL/1 and must be built/run on zOS. IBM should rewrite it and move it to Linux.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 3 Delivered

Add the ability to parse AbstractCommandHandler remote command output for compile errors to populate the Problems view in TPF Toolkit 4.6

The programmers rely on the Problems view to enable them to go right to where any errors occur because you can click on an item in the view and it will open the appropriate file and make that line the current line. IBM provided a sample of plugins...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Leverage open source components from IBM image repository for RTMC

Please add the ability for the z/TPF Insights Dashboard Starter Kit to support Linux on Z configuration leveraging open source components from IBM image repository.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

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