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    Add support for Basic and Bearer Authorization through Authorization header to libserdes, enabling secure authentication against Kafka Registries.

    At the moment the only way for an application to authorize it self towards a Kafka registry using libserdes (part of the Kafka SDK) is by passing the username and password in the URL. This is an unsafe solution and is considered bad security pract...
    about 17 hours ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Submitted

    Native (open source) Kafka client in Java on the Mainframe to support any Kafka server target

    For IBM to support the native open source Kafka client in Java on the Mainframe, a license of IBM Event automation is required, but also this support is currently limited with a requirement to connect to an IBM Kafka server only. This is not the c...
    5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 2 Submitted

    Add support for RACF keyrings

    Our policies and procedures on z/OS are to leverage RACF for SSL key stores and trust stores. Applications do not have access to their private keys unless they are accessed via RACF keyrings. Not having the ability to use RACF keyrings is preventi...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 1 Needs more information

    Enhancement the Cobl Kafak SDK by incorporating Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE).

    Key Benefits of CSFLE Enhanced Data Privacy and Security: CSFLE encrypts and decrypts individual fields within data, ensuring that sensitive information is accessible only to authorized stakeholders.Even if unauthorized users gain access to the da...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Planned for future release

    PL/I support for Kafka SDK

    Many customers use PL/I on Z. It would be good to have Kafka SDK support available to this language in addition to already available COBOL & C languages
    10 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 1

    Identify workflow jobs outside of z/osmf thro use of JCL comments

    It would be nice to be able to match a submitted job to a workflow (outside of zosmf)… thro a matching comment in the JCL for the workflow and each step in the workflow.
    over 8 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Not under consideration

    zospt could support dataset input for SITPARMs

    The customer may have a huge number of SIT parms settings. They stores them in a specific dataset member, then set it to SYSIN in region jcl . Can we support dataset name in DFH_REGION_SITPARMS ?
    about 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Not under consideration

    zospt could provide a image repository

    CEB would like zospt provide a image repository so that they could share the image across team.ps,They may have different zospt instance,as they may have different zosmf configuration
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

    zospt could provide function to duplicate FOR

    CEB has a FOR. they'd like to provision cics region as well as the FOR, they would like to copy the files and define the files with new names in the new provisioned cics region so that the file could be opened in both existing FOR and new provisio...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

    zospt could provide a method to deploy a image to an existing region

    CEB wonder if zospt could provide a method to apply a image to an existing region, even the region is provisioned by zospt, so that they could deploy new resources once the region is been provisioned.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

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