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Status Delivered
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2013

Allow the ZDFCT command to display information from the inactive FCTB

To assist the customer in managing record allocations on their online zTPF system, they would like to have an online  functional command to display record type attributes from both the current/active and Inactive FCTBs.  This would  allow a manual comparison of a record type, including all of the Split items,  Ordinal range, Equate Value, Record size, Ownership, Farf address and MMCCHHR ranges.  This would  ensure a correct update had been done and loaded..

Allow the ZDFCT command to display FCTB attributes from the inactive FCTB.

There is a zTPF command that was implemented with APAR PJ34869 which provides the information requested by the customer for use in analyzing record type allocated in the current zTPF FCTB.   The purpose of this enhancement  to the ZDFCT command is to allow the user to look at the record type attributes from the inactive FCTB if one exists.  This new function would be made available if the alternate FCTB was loaded via either the ZODBR LOAD or the ZFCTB LOAD commands.

Idea priority High
  • 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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    Jan 13, 2014

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF
    Component - z/TPF

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

  • Guest
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    Nov 13, 2013

    This is available with PJ41073 on z/TPF PUT 10.