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    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

    allow to specify non-contiguous pool of IPs and ports

    We have a subnet that has certain IP addresses already assigned. So we cannot define the whole subnet in ODTZ when defining a target environment. I need to define a non-contiguous pool of IPs and ports.
    8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future 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

    Sysplex support

    KB is using TSQ, NCS(Name Count Server) in CICS COBOL applicaion in sysplex environment and so, to test COBOL program using ODT, Syspolex support is essential to use TSQ, NCS.
    9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future 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 1 Future consideration

    Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud

    Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud
    11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

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