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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

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

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

IBM DB2 QMF object update

* QMF Import *** this module is already developed by CIO App Mod*** Import QMF objects, query, procedure, form by using instruction files. QMFFORM: QMFFORM1: type: FORM member: QMFFORM1 name: QMF_FORM_1 QMFPROC: QMFPROC1: type: PROC m...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

update IBM Workload Scheduler applications

* IzWS (OPC) update *** this module is already developed by CIO *** Using BATL files, create/update OPC applications The git repo contains a BATL file for each OPC applications. The module inserts them into a JOB which is using WAPL com...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

more configurable BIND module for program level parameters

* BIND dynamically * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** The actual bind module parameters are staticly defined in the environment file. This doesn't allows set parameters by DBRM files. There should be a bind instruction file w...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Use artifact based deployments instead of hardcoded parameters in the environment file

* non artifact related modules * (ds_create, ds_delete, job_submit, shell_command, system_command, tso_command, template) These modules are using the environment file for reading configurations. The developer must edit this file for each dep...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic capability missing

The client complain that the Dynamic capability has been removed in the latest version, and would be happy if it would be implemented again.
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

Provide a java.security file to support z crypto h/w

Provide a mechanism to enable crypto hardware providers (IBMJCECCA and IBMJCEHYBRID) on z/OS without requiring additional configuration of the java.security properties file.
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration