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IBM Java SDK for z/OS

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Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
7 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Under review

Request for Java Hold data delivery method to align with current z/OS methodology.

Request to provide holddata that IBM z customers are accustomed to using without having to use a seperate methodology to access the required information.
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add support for HWIREST to JZOS

BCPii is an important z/OS specific API that currently supports several languages but NOT Java. Having this support within JZOS would make java applications relying on HWI communications (such as monitoring applications or system automation tasks)...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Javadoc for JZOS as JAR or ZIP

Make the javadoc for JZOS available in a method that can be imported into an IDE as a standard part of the Java order and install, such as a zip or JAR.
over 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 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 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
9 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

JZOS file/stream classes should implement Closeable for try with resources

JZOS file and stream classes, such as ZFile should implement Closeable to support try with resources.
about 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Update JAVA to honor default Keyring certificate

Update JAVA so it will honor the default Keyring certificate instead of picking the first personal certificate it finds in a Keyring. JAVA is being invoked by products like Liberty for z/OS server in a JVM and Java is using JSSE to get digital cer...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration