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    support other Linux distribution for the tool server

    Actually, when you want to install ODTz, the tool server needs to be an Ubuntu distribution.But, in our company, the policy is to install only RHEL. So, can you add other type of distribution in your supported base? RHEL, SUSE, ...
    10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future 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...
    10 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    override IPL string via API

    I want to be able to override IPL string in start API
    6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    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

    Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

    When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under 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

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