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IBM Java SDK for z/OS

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    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... ...
    12 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    JCE Provider support for IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services PKCS#11

    IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) is a premium Key Management System with a Cloud HSM that is FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified. HPCS is used as a backend HSM for several ISV products like Hashicorp Vault, Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL, F5...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Provide a java.security file to support z crypto h/w

    Provide a mechanism to enable crypto hardware providers (IBMJCECCA and IBMJCEHYBRID) on z/OS without requiring additional configuration of the java.security properties file.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Sharing one Java Shared Classcache between different users and its restrictions

    We plan to use the Java Shared Classcache for our Java Batch Jobs to improve CPU usage and performance of our batch jobs. The batch jobs use for security reasons different users but should share one classcache. Sharing the same Shared Class Cache ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under 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...
    9 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...
    9 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

    As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Provide functional JZOS jars in a Maven repository

    IBM has made non-functional versions of the JZOS jars available in the Maven Central repository to allow compilation using Maven. Some JZOS functions are dependent on z/OS, however others e.g. data conversion are not. Using non functional jars mak...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Provide the ability for the Java JZOS libraries to listen ENF48 system events.

    Overview: Provide the ability for the Java JZOS libraries to listen ENF48 system events. Current Status: Java support team stated that the JZOS API does not have any class for listening for z/OS system events from java code. Issue: Customer's appl...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Ensure interoperability of Semeru 21 with OpenJDK for default trustStoreType

    Ensure interoperability of Semeru 21 with OpenJDK for default trustStoreType. We ran into an issue with a partner application from Featurespace. When running java app from OpenJDK 21 on IBM Semery 21. Java was unable to find or load the specified ...
    2 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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