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    optional creation of smf89 records

    Node.js has a free of charge license, but an optional priced S&S and its usage is execution based. This optional S&S is only required when node.js is not used as supporting program for others (like zSMS). If node.js is operating as support...
    17 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 1 Under review

    Enable zIIP Usage for Node.js

    IBM is porting more and more new workload to the z/OS Plattform. Some of them (e.g. Db2ZAI, Zowe) requires the use of Node.js. Currently, Node.js is not eligable to run on zIIP. With this, the MSUs would account to the normal software costs (TFP, ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 3 Future consideration

    start debugging in second program called by CALL

    It is not currently possible to configure the debugger to start in a program other than the first in the chain (as is possible with other debuggers) if the first program calls the second with CALL and not with EXEC CICS LINK. It would be very usef...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / Linux 1 Planned for future release

    MVS native dataset access (PDS, PDSE, seq)

    Many z/OS USS commands use this technique for allocating and accessing MVS native datasets (PDS, PDSE, seq): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=zusscr-specifying-mvs-data-set-names-in-shell-environment Node.js should also have this capabi...
    8 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 2 Future consideration

    zIIP-enable Node.js

    We've made a significant investment in Node.js, but it runs slow compared to Java and Python because it's not zIIP enabled the way those languages are (Java 100% and Python 70%). Zowe also uses Node.js, but we couldn't rewrite that in Java or Pyth...
    12 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 2 Future consideration

    Need HW crypto card encryption support from node.js

    While working with State Farm, their z15 systems are all come with HW crypto card enabled. They require the encryption to go through and use HW crypto card when deploying to production system. Our product WMLz (Watson Machine Learning for z/OS) is...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 4 Future consideration

    PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

    Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
    over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / All components 2 Not under consideration

    Profiling support option for Node.js

    Node.js instrumentation/profiling requirement: Please enable --perf-basic-prof or equivalent option on z/os for Node.js v16+ for generation of the map pertaining to JS code. (The map file is required by the performance team for zConvert and instru...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 0 Not under consideration

    Add --prof support in node on z/OS

    Please add full --prof support to enable application profiling. Zowe applications need a way to estimate and track resource consumption and perform optimization.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 4 Not under consideration

    Support VSAM RLS access in node.js

    VSAM files read/write are performed in CICS and batch applications in MVS. For node.js to access the data concurrently, VSAM RLS is required.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 1 Future consideration

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