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Status Delivered
Categories z/TPFDF
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 10, 2015

New user exit support for find and files in TPFDF

Add user exit support for the find and files in TPFDF. For both prime and overflow blocks.

The user exit on the find should be post find.

The file user exit should be prior to the file operation.

A user exit exits for the find of a prime block, but not the overflow.

And no user exits exist for the fileing of a record.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Aug 5, 2016

    This is available with PI56476 on z/TPFDF PUT13 and PJ43935 on z/TPF PUT13.

  • Guest
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    Oct 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/TPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF

  • Guest
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    Sep 4, 2015

    IBM's direction is to add encryption to the z/TPFDF product rather than providing user exits.

  • Guest
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    Aug 25, 2015

    We have successfully prototyped an encryption architecture based on the availability of these user exits. The prototype performed exceptionally well and we need to more towards implementing the encryption in production in the next year.