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New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Add New Configurable Timeout Value, Max Number of Cursors Value and Console Alerting to the MongoDB for z/TPF Product

Consider the following updates/changes for PSS with regards to the z/TPF MongoDB API: Make mongo connection timeout value configurable (hard coded today for 10 mins). Make maximum number of cursors configurable. When a condition such as “maximum c...
9 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Future consideration

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

Create INODE version upgrade tool.

Currently for z/TPF TFS INODEs there is no available functionality to upgrade an INODE to the most current INODE version. In some systems, directories/files have been present since the initialization of the TPF TFS and are still at INODE version ‘...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Upgrade Kafka Client

The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Certify ooRexx version 5.0 for use with TOS.

Version 4.2 has long standing reliability issues. Version 5.0 is newer and will offer better perfomance to TOS customers.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Support for a simpler programming language (For example "SWIFT")

Assembler, C and C++ are difficult to learn and use and it would be beneficial to have a simpler programming language for application developers.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support for Dynamic ENTERs from assembler that involve parameters and C++ programs defined as extern "C".

There is no support for dynamic enters from Asm that involve parameters and C++ programs defined as extern "C". GNC style parameter passing works to call C programs, but not to call C++ programs defined as extern "C". It does work for the 5th para...
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Request a C/C++ interface for IBM VSAM macros used in TPF

Currently only assembler programs can issue the VSAM macros. It is required that C/C++ programs can also issue these macros via function calls in a similar manner.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration