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My ideas: IBM Java SDK for z/OS

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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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under 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 3 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Option to allow ARM registration at start of the JVM using JZOS Batch Launcher

The JZOS Batch Launcher has currently no automatic restart capability when JVM crashes, such a feature that could be very helpful for critical online application or web server like Tomcat. This could be implemented by adding an option that automat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Addition of Mainframe Character Set (CP1027) in JDK 11

IBM Java 6 which comes along with WebSphere 7 is having support for character set: CP1027. But In Java 8 or 11 this character set support is not there. When Java 11 is used to connect Mainframe zOS DB2, sometimes its failing with the following exc...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Not under consideration