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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

    Need support for migrated dataset during DEPLOY_MODULES/UPDATE/MEMBER_COPY phase

    When Wazi Deploy tries to copy to a dataset that has been migrated, it fails with an error in ZOAU dtouch which doesn't support migrated datasets: stderr_response: IKJ56893I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOAD NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17101I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOA...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 1 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 link between the artifact and the step result in the evidence file

    The step_result field in the evidence file for the MEMBER_COPY, SEQUENTIAL_COPY, MEMBER_ARCHIVE and SEQUENTIAL_ARCHIVE steps currently don’t include a field that represent the element being deployed. It only appears as part of the copy command. We...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

    Generate the default report as part of wazideploy-deploy and the Ansible module

    Wazi Deploy comes with predefined reports for a single deployment: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=analysis-predefined-queries-in-product Instead of dedicating an extra step in the pipeline script/configuration for the r...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 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

    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

    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

    zFile API write-lock on VSAM at record level for high concurrent VSAM write access to different records

    Our product (zExplorer server on z/OS) is using VSAM for book-keeping our metadata of dataset ENQ. The VSAM needs to support high level of concurrent of write (and read) access from different users, servers from different sysplex VMs, to different...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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