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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...
    4 days 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 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 1 Needs more information

    See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

    Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

    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

    Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

    Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

    New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

    Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

    Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

    In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

    z/TPF Program Analysis Tool

    Headline: Program Analysis Tool 2. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Citibank, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire an implementation desire a Progra...
    over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

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