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IBM Java SDK for z/OS

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Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Under review

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 ...
2 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Under review

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
11 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for Elliptic Curves x448 and x25519 in Java 8 SDK for z/OS.

Java 8 is globally used by a number of applications in Traditional zWebSphere v8.5 and v9.0, the company standard requires the latest elliptic curves to secure applications externally and internally.
about 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Option to allow ARM registration at start of the JVM using JZOS Batch Launcher

The JZOS Batch Launcher has currently no automatic restart capability when JVM crashes, such a feature that could be very helpful for critical online application or web server like Tomcat. This could be implemented by adding an option that automat...
about 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center under AQUA 3.3

We provide a consolidated eclipse environment for our mainframe Tools such as MQ, zOS, CICS explorer, Debug tools, Data Studio and with AUQA 3.3 , tool "BM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center" is not available.
about 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

in Healthcenter authorization.file It should be able to have more than a readWrite value.

if there is a option for readOnly. you can have users that only is allowed to read and other that can read + ask JVM to take dumps.
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future 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 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Need support for additional digest HASH algorithms for RSA-OAEP encrypt/decrypt using keys in PKDS/ICSF

As an additon to the requested support described in RFE JSDK4Z-I-20, we also would like to see support for digest HASH algorithms: SHA224, SHA384 and SHA512. We would like to see this in both Java 8 and Semeru
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Addition of Mainframe Character Set (CP1027) in JDK 11

IBM Java 6 which comes along with WebSphere 7 is having support for character set: CP1027. But In Java 8 or 11 this character set support is not there. When Java 11 is used to connect Mainframe zOS DB2, sometimes its failing with the following exc...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Not under consideration