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Add githubcli and gitlabcli to OEF

With so many switching to git it would be useful if these CLIs got added to OEF. They have many uses even automation.
2 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

Password spray alerts various sources

zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

vim and ebcdic support

If you use the --version command on vim you can see the following (abbreviated): >vim --version|moreVIM - Vi IMproved 9.1 (2024 Jan 02, compiled Nov 6 2025 07:57:02)Included patches: 1-1830Modified by IBM_OEF_1.1.0.7Compiled by IBM_OEF_1.1.0.7N...
3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Under review

Add zoslib to OEF

zoslib includes many useful C APIs that we would benefit from if it was added, currently we can only get it from zOpen which is more difficult in an enterprise environment
3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Under review

Include the GNU find command

Newer versions of GitLab Runner for z/OS uses a variation of the find command "-exec" action that terminates the command with a plus (i.e. '+'). The find command that comes with z/OS doesn't support that syntax. It would be good to provide an opti...
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Be able to throttle incoming trafic rates based in USEID using CEX

We believe it would be beneficial to implement a mechanism that allows throttling of incoming transaction rates in IMS based on the associated user ID. This approach would help safeguard the system against excessive workloads and enable more preci...
5 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

GZIP and OpenSSL for Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS

It would be very useful to have GZIP and OpenSSL in the Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS. It ist always good to have such basic tools at hand.
5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review