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Provide artifact store for IBM Java libraries

IBM Semeru for Z ships with a number of Z specific libraries that can be used to interface with traditional Z subsystems like RACF, or that have useful utilities like the JZOS library. The problem is that, when developing an application to run on ...
8 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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

Add a 'TRACE_ID' field to OMEGAMON IMS ATF Summary and Detail Records

Please add a 'TRACE_ID' field to OMEGAMON for IMS ATF trace records (Summary and Detail) to facilitate Filtering query results to a particular trace definition.
about 2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Under review

Support of GCM mode for IBMJCECCA with a key from CKDS

On z/OS we do file encryption with a JAVA framework that must use the IBMJCECCA provider to use a CKDS key. The cipher.update function is not supported in this mode, but it is supported in CBC mode. It is indispensable for encrypting large files F...
6 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update Post-APPLY ++SHELLSCR to allow use of System Symbols for SYMLINK creatio

The Post-APPLY ++SHELLSCR that are delivered with the z/OS Java FMIDs and every PTF that creates the SYMLINKs for /usr/lpp/java/current... should be updated... It was appropiate back in time when there was only one Java version available: Java 8. ...
12 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Increase the imposed limit of 10,000 rows returned by Application Trace Facility (ATF) to a ‘User Defined’ limit in the Enhanced 3270 User Interface (e3270ui).

When displaying ATF data in a large IMS environment that processes thousands of transactions per second, the imposed e3270ui limit of 10,000 records is insufficient to return meaningful data. The customer should be allowed to increase this value a...
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add CPU resource values to OMEGAMON for IMS Response Time Analysis (RTA) data.

When researching issues with the RTA feature of OMEGAMON for IMS it would be helpful if CPU metrics were included along with response time metrics to provide a more complete picture of the issue.
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add IMS Transaction Queuing History to the list of available Historical items in OMEGAMON for IMS.

We have a need to view historical information for IMS Transaction Queuing. This information is available in real-time displays but not available to enable as a historical collection. Also, it would be useful to consider only collecting information...
3 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Discover the fd of a Java Socket (for C operations), or introduce Java API for such C operation on the Java Socket.

Socket fd is a visible as a holder reference to a socket. In some scenario with Java socket that some operation or check could not be done at Java level/API. For example, our product's requirement to check if the socket (connection) is under an AT...
7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future 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