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    Allow RACF digital certificate registration from Java interface

    Currently the only way to allow users to self register their personal certificates, from CAC or PIV cards, is to use the ASIS self registration tool provided in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACINSTL). While this tool works we are running into issue where browsers...
    6 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    ZFile open-mode API

    The ZFile "options" parameter to the constructor/reopen() method is based on the C-style fopen() API, but does not have an entirely clear correspondance to COBOL file open options (INPUT, OUTPUT, I-O, EXTEND); it would be useful to COBOL-using cli...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    JZOS Fields annotation library

    The JZOS field-creation API is somewhat verbose, while Java developers are used to annotation-based serialization librarys (e.g. Jackson, Hibernate). With suitable choices of defaults, an annotation library could with very little annotation burden...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    ByteBuffer / Charset interface for JZOS fields

    There are a couple more-modern Java APIs that it would be useful to use in JZOS fields. In particular, the fact that the working character set is exposed in the API as a String charset name rather than a java.nio.Charset object imposes some inconv...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    JZOS Fields API for COBOL-compatible string output

    JZOS Fields can convert between Java objects and their in-memory COBOL binary representation, but cannot convert to their textual representation as defined by DISPLAY / ACCEPT. For (most) USAGE DISPLAY field types these representations are equival...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    JZOS Field for non-EBCDIC encodings

    JZOS StringField only supports single-byte EBCDIC encodings; COBOL also allows multi/variable-byte length DBCS encodings (most notably, Shift-JIS for the Japanese market) and two unicode encodings, "National" UTF-16 and UTF-8. While all Java SDKs ...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Permissive mode for JZOS Fields

    JZOS fields throw exceptions on their input values holding invalid data (e.g. Packed Decimal fields with > 0x9 digit nibbles or invalid sign codes); COBOL programs, on the other hand, don't always store valid values in their fields. Could we ad...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Round-trip StringField trim semantics

    The current semantics of the trim() flag on StringField (which I had to discover by querying a member of the team rather than them being available in the docs) are to strip both EBCDIC space (0x40) and null (0x00) characters, which means if you ro...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Enhanced JZOS Fields factory methods

    From experience building WCA4Z, one common point of confusion is how the DatatypeFactory keeps the offset of the generated fields implicit rather than explicit. Another point is the large number of undifferentiated boolean flags to the Field const...
    7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future 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

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