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    Epoch Time LE Functions for COBOL

    z/OS COBOL 6.4: Epoch time formats (also called UNIX time) are used in many programming environments/applications. To properly interface with an application, I had to write my own COBOL pgm to derive the proper Epoch time. Useful LE functions to c...
    9 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

    Add composite patterns to sh

    Composite patterns are a regular expression-like extension to shell glob patterns. For example, the composite pattern *(a) matches zero or more "a" characters. Composite patterns are useful. In my experience, they are often used in KornShell scrip...
    5 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

    Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

    U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 0 Submitted

    OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

    The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
    4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Planned for future release

    Improve Initial RACF installation procedures

    While performing an initial installation of z/VM V7.4 with RACF, the IBMUSER id is used for initial logon. If the CP Directory has an ACIGROUP entry for IBMUSER that is not SYS1, the initial logon fails after password change, since IBMUSER's ACIGR...
    11 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    Split 31/64 Bit environments create 2 enclaves both think they own //SYSOUT and over-write each other when writing //SYSOUT to Disk DataSet. //SYSOUT needs to be owned by the initiating Enclave only.

    With the need to go to the 64-bit Java JNI for storage reasons, three of our customers all write //SYSOUT from some jobs to Disk. From Discussions with IBM both with Tickets: TS019872641 (COBOL) – closed - Low Severity, Question on JCL/JES //SYSOU...
    20 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Planned for future release

    Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy structure's PREFLIST

    Currently the maximum CFs per each structure's PREFLIST parameter in a CFRM policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection...
    5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Under review

    Rust language

    “Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 11 Future consideration

    Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

    You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
    8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review

    Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

    I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
    8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

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