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Allow HEAPCHK / STORAGE / ABTERMENC to be modified via CLER

I order to allow for easier debugging of COBOL application user heap overlays under CICS, it would be helpful to allow for HEAPCHK to be part of the subset of run-time options that are modifiable via CLER. Often times HEAPCHK needs to be used in c...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / LE Submitted

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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

C compiler to always include register equates for usage in __asm()

A bug in IFAQUERY where the macro relies on the presence of a register equate for R0 made me realize that the compiler could always add register equates when it reworks the C code to assembler, for example by including DSECT YREGS. This would make...
20 days ago in z/OS / LE Submitted

Reduce the increase of number of CICS getmains after LE z/OS 2.4 and new parameter CEENXSTG

After the migration to z/OS 2.4 the number of CICS getmains increased by 40 percent.This tremendous increase is caused by the introduction of the new Language Environment parameter CEENXSTG.CEENXSTG is a parameter that indicates whether non-execut...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

CELAAUTH support for message handling in authorized environment

Background: We are upgrading the 31-bit implementation of our product to a 64-bit version. As with the 31-bit implementation, the objective is to run the 64-bit version under an Enclave SRB so it can be zIIP enabled. Historically, we have relied o...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

2 GB large pages for native (non Java) heap

We currently run in-memory java computing applications that leverage long lived memory(> 1TB per instance), we do run with 2GB large pages for the heap via JVM option Xlp:objectheap:pagesize=2G but the majority of the data is stored off heap, f...
2 months ago in z/OS / LE Under review

COBOL 6.4 and equivalent LE: Provide LE functions to convert BASE64 to binary and vice versa

BASE64 is widely used in web applications, email attachments, embedding binary data in a text file, imbedding a PDF in an HTML page, etc. Providing LE functions so that COBOL 6.4 (and future compilers) can translate binary strings to BASE64 and vi...
4 months ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in z/OS / LE Planned for future release

need CEEOPT64 for amode64 environments

allow applications that have amode31 and amode64 environments to be able to read options specific to their environment. For example existing CEEOPTS be used by amode24/31 applications and CEEOPT64 be processed by amode64 environment
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

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