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    shared classes to support .jrt and nested jars

    I am using zowe - and it takes a long time to start. (as well as z/osmf) I can see from the shared classes output and the output of -verbose:classes that most files are not found in the shared classes cache. These classes come from nested jars... ...
    9 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    ZFile API - include switching user security profile in a thread with a userID provided in the API call

    MVS dataset could be configured with a access profile. For a user connection to our server, the functionality to access on dataset and USS file is performed with the connection's user security using pthread_security_np(applid) (dedicated thread or...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    zFile API write-lock on VSAM at record level for high concurrent VSAM write access to different records

    Our product (zExplorer server on z/OS) is using VSAM for book-keeping our metadata of dataset ENQ. The VSAM needs to support high level of concurrent of write (and read) access from different users, servers from different sysplex VMs, to different...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow use of CICS Security Discovery tooling without extracted Metadata

    When trying to use the CICS Security tools added to CICS Explorer, nothing can be achieved until an sdd file created by extracting data from RACF. If for any any reason such a file cannot be created, none of the tooling can be used. IMHO, the tool...
    8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    Launch CICS transactions from CICS Explorer / IDz

    Eclipse has built-in support for launching applications with normal execution or for debug (launch and debug configurations). It is possible today to setup debug profiles for CICS applications from Eclipse but starting the actualy transaction does...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    View SYSPARM data across multiple CICS regions simultaneously

    Allow CICS region SYSPARM data to be displayed and filtered, across multiple CICS regions, just as is available in the CPSM WUI.
    almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 7 Not under consideration

    CICS Explorer Auto Refresh

    Enable CICS Explorer to have Auto Refresh like the CPSM WUI.
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    Display installed Enqueue Models

    Explorer is not showing installed Enqueue models. We can see all definitions, but need to use the WUI to see the installed definitions. We are trying to cut down on the need to switch from Explorer to WUI to work.
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

    As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
    10 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    CICS Explorer - ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions

    Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Attribute view for a single CICS region. We would like the ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions similar to the way other Region Attributes c...
    almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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