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    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

    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...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    ADDI cannot generate metadata for COBOL stored procedures

    Ford has hundreds of COBOL/Db2 Stored procedures. They would like to modernize these stored procedures using Watsonx Code Assistant for Z(WCAZ), but since ADDI is unable to generate metadata for Stored Procedures, WCAZ is unable to refactor or tra...
    over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

    Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

    There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...
    over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

    Add PROCs to the Job Call Flow

    It would be nice if the PROCs that are called by Jobs were reflected in the Job Call Flow
    over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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