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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/TPF Product Family
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 19, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

FARF6 fixed file for traditional TPF databases

Most of our databases are zTPFDF.  Our database growth is primarily FARF6.  Our pools control records are FARF5.  With each pool gen we must increase the various pools control records allocations, requiring additional UFT/FTI5 pairs. We are exhausting the available UFT/FTI5 pairs which represents a limit to our database expansions.  We are currently migrating FARF5 databases to FARF6 which frees up UFT/FTI5 pairs, however this migration effort is quite slow.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 1, 2023

    Yes. The request for pools support to be enhanced to be able to use FARF6 fixed files

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 24, 2023

    This is a request for pools support to be enhanced to be able to use FARF6 fixed files.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 24, 2023
    Please provide more details on what is being requested in this idea.
    APAR PJ44596 provided FARF6 fixed file support in 2017. This can be used for traditional TPF databases.
    Is the request for pools support to be enhanced to be able to use FARF6 fixed files?

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