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    Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

    We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
    4 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

    Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
    5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

    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

    TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

    Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
    about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Update ZOVFS mkusr command with longer/complexer user-id/password and default directory

    With the current ZOVFS mkusr command we can add users with an 8 character alphanumeric user-id and password. A longer user-id (e.g. up to 25 characters) which can also contain special characters gives more flexibility for adding users, e.g. using ...
    4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    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

    Extend message "OLDR3024W name – GROUP NAME groupname IN LOADSET lsname DOES NOT EXIST – TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID" with the name of the file

    I have a loadset with about 300 files and receive during the zoldr load the following warning message: OLDR3024W 00.42.50 CLDZ - GROUP NAME tpfdfl IN LOADSET Z77167 DOES NOT EXIST - TPF DEFAULT IS USED FOR GROUP ID^ It's hard to check all the comp...
    2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

    Functional entry to update CTKI enterprise name and complex name fields

    CTKI contains two fields that are hard-coded that identify the system: IC0ENTR DC CL8' eee' ENTERPRISE NAME, RIGHT JUSTIFIED IC0COMP DC CL8'ccccc' TPF COMPLEX NAME Something like ZCTKI ALTER ENTR xxxx COMP yyyy Where one or both keyword options co...
    7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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

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