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IBM Java SDK for z/OS

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JZOS Maven jars should throw exception for disabled functionality

IBM has made JZOS jars available on Maven Central for development and compilation. The functionality has been disabled in the Maven Central jars. Some or all disabled functions currently return invalid values e.g. null. If you inadvertently use th...
5 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 4 Delivered

Request for Java Hold data delivery method to align with current z/OS methodology.

Request to provide holddata that IBM z customers are accustomed to using without having to use a seperate methodology to access the required information.
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide a Java 8 compiled JZOS jar via Maven central

Recently, a Java 11 compiled version of the JZOS jar has been added to maven central allowing build tools such as Maven and Gradle to add it as a dependency with less friction for projects and developers. Since this jar has been compiled with Java...
11 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Delivered

Java 11 IM packages for z/OS

Enable customers to maintain their Java versions using installation manager in the same way that they manage their Liberty versions. Enable customers to use JDK versions that are different from the system installed Java.
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 6 Delivered

Provide a redistributable JAR file for the IBMJZOS API in Java 11

In Java 7 & 8 the IBMJZOS API toolkit was shipped in the JAR file ibmjzos.jar and licensed for redistribution. The same function is required in Java 11. This enables other s/w components to easily embedd this file and also enables the usage of...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

JZOS - Support multi-block logstream reads

We would like to use JZOS functionality to read logstream(s) that are written to by applications running in the OLTP environment but it does not currently support MULTIBLOCK reads, which is much more performant than reading in a single block.
about 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Extend the JZOS ZFile class to include "unlocked" versions of read and locate for VSAM files

We've been prototyping and performance testing Java's ability to access VSAM record-oriented or Key Sequenced Data Sets (KSDS) using the ZFile class and now, our own home-grown functions based on the XL C/C++Run-Time Library – in particular, the l...
about 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Delivered

IBMZSecurity provider should accept "safkeyring" for Java 11 a la Java 8

According to the IBM Java 11 migration guide the IBMZSecurity provider does not support "safkeyring" as was done in Java 8 but instead uses "safkeyringjce". I find this problematic as it requires changes to configuration parameters in third-party ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 7 Delivered

Support enhanced security when authenticating users with SAF Security API

The current SAF Security API does not support specifying the APPLID for the PlatformUser.authenticate method. Supporting the __passwd_applid() function will allow Program Control security rules to be utilzied. See documentation: https://www.ibm.co...
about 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Added AES-CTR algorithms to IBMJCEFIPS and make them FIPS 104-2 certified by NIST

We need AES-CTR algorithms being included in IBM java 1.8. IBMJCEFIPS since these are very popular algorithms for SSH. Also we need to AES-CTR algorithms FIPS 104-2 certified by NIST. IBM Sterling B2B Integrator uses IBM java and we use IBMJCE and...
over 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

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