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Certify the current tos release with windows server 2022.

Our servers are being loaded with windows server 2022. We need to know that TOS has run in the tpf lab on windows 2022 successfully.
22 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Add user exit to the ZCPYS zFunction command code to allow the user to set global/switches for utilities active

By inserting a USER EXIT prior to ( and following ) activating a ZCPYS FC FLASH or ZPCYS SGC BACKUP, we can check to ensure that there are no other system critical utilities that are running that may be impacted by the resource intensive Flash/SGC...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

(TPFUG) Enable CSV Serialization using DFDL

There is current functionality to create documents from a CSV formatted data stream using DFDL. There is not the inverse functionality. We are currently receiving a number of CSV files which require code to be written to parse the data into a form...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

When a task/process fails for ZCPYS we would like a secondary output that shows the first child error to be included with the REST respnose

when a process fails for a ZCPYS we get a generic IWNR1027E error message that states <task> has completed with one or more errors. This doesnt tell the host operator any information, usually resulting in tickets being generated and calls be...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Enable the use of MySQL for RTMC without the need for a MariaDB database

The tpfrtmc package uses MariaDB as the database for storing data received from TPF. Many users have existing MySQL installations which can be leveraged for this use and can thus avoid needing to stand up a special 'RTMC only' database and all of ...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Delivered

Short term pool support for greater than 32,767 directories.

Customer is requesting that IBM increase the number of short term pool directories to go beyond the 32,767 limitation.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Add Completion timestamp to ZCPYS FC DISPLAY command

we would like to see a last successful flash taken time stamp to go with the "recoverable" status. this is wanted to go with some automation so as to not have to goto the CSM to get the last good time/date to determine out "time lock" setting. ZCP...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Provide encrypting find/file databases similar to z/TPFDF encryption

As PCI, PII, and GDPR requirements become more and more stringent, it will be as important to encrypt traditional Find/File databases as much as z/TPFDF databases. IBM already provides the built-in ability to encrypt/decrypt through database defin...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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