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IBM Java SDK for z/OS

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Provide library javax.smartcardio

requires support for javax.smartcardio in IBM JDK 8.
about 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Exploit z/OS specific features to minimise impact of Java security changes to JCE RACF keystores

Why:Following implementation of OSB 8181692, the KeyProtector.java function increased the number of times that keystore data is encrypted from from 20 to 200,000 times. This had the effect of significantly increasing the cost when retrieving the k...
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Need support for additional digest HASH algorithms for RSA-OAEP encrypt/decrypt using keys in PKDS/ICSF

As an additon to the requested support described in RFE JSDK4Z-I-20, we also would like to see support for digest HASH algorithms: SHA224, SHA384 and SHA512. We would like to see this in both Java 8 and Semeru
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add support for RSA-OAEP encrypt/decrypt using keys in PKDS/ICSF with secure padding algorithms and ability to specify algorithm parameters

We need to use public/private keys stored in PKDS/ICSF to encrypt/decrypt payload for financial transaction services. Specifically we are required to use RSA-OAEP for encryption/decryption of for instance JWT payloads. Currently the only RSA paddi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IBM JDK Kerberos compatibility

"Based on the JGSS documentation, IBM does not support the "storeKey" property as a JAAS option: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYKE2_7.0.0/com.ibm.java.security.api.doc/jgss/com/ibm/security/auth/module/Krb5LoginModule.html We ar...
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add an isNumeric() test to record classes

There currently is no straightformat way for generated record classes to check whether a byte pattern contains valid numeric data (in the sense of the COBOL "IS NUMERIC" test). However, this is often needed: Since COBOL does not really have the no...
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Using IBM Record Generator off Z/OS system with UTF-8 encoding support

Record Generator only supports EBCDIC encoding. I need it to support UTF-8 off z/OS platform.
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Fix IBM JRE class redinition/retransformation

internal JTC Requirement (94991): The requirement is to 'Allow unloading ofall redefined classes except for the original (will be intermixed in theRAM/ROM segments with other classes) and the current'.Development team has agreed to analyse the fea...
over 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance JVM Keystore resiliency if bad certificate encountered

Today, a JVM that utilizes SSL will earmark a keystore/keyring as invalid if any certificate within the keystore/keyring is missing a private key, regardless of it other certificates are valid and the problematic certificate is not even used withi...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Remove synchronized from java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(byte[] bytes) to improve performance.

java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(byte[] bytes) is synchronized in IBM JDK 1.8.0 version which is causing performance issue as causing other threads to wait for the lock. Oracle and OpenJDK has removed synchronized from java.security.SecureRand...
about 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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