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Messages IGZ0201x to be written on syslog too

When a COBOL file definition does not match in record length with the JCL job, then it is running with high CPU (looping). At the moment the message IGZ0201W (A file attribute mismatch was detected. File ... in program ... had a record length of x...
28 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 10 Future consideration

Relax single TCB restriction on fopen(), freopen(), flocate(), etc. against MVS files

There is currently a documented limitation when using threads to access MVS files: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=brizua-using-threads-mvs-files . Specifically, fopen(), freopen() and rewind() must be performed on the owning thread th...
25 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 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 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

SYSLOGD / syslog() API - Make it possible to configure a custom AF_UNIX socket for syslog() API

We'd like to get an option for the openlog() / syslog() / closelog() API to configure the AF_UNIX socket to direct the logging messages to another SYSLOGD that is running with -p option configured. The reason for this is, that we consider to run a...
6 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Better control of STACK and HEAP allocation in CICS.

We want better control of the AUTODST parameter behaviour in CICS. We want to be able to control the maximum initial and incremental sizes. We also want to be able to control the percentage of the expected total sizes that goes to initial and incr...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Under review

Adding the &DS suffix to the DYNDUMP

Using DYNDUMP, the dump is partial due to the dataspace 2GB limit. When there is a huge amount of storage to be dumped, it is not possible for a complete transaction dump to be generated to an automatically allocated dataset that does not include ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

LE AMODE 31/64 interoperability environment: retain original abend of secondary enclave

In our new application release we use the new capability to run AMODE 31 programs and AMODE 64 programs together in an application in the same address space. First we start a Java 17 JVM 64-bit environment via JZOS to run our Java-Framework that c...
11 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

C fopen() SMS attributes to create a file

We use Zfile class to access Z/OS file using Java. Zfile use fopen to manage Z/OS files. Unfortunatelly fopen() C primitive doesn't have MGMTCLAS, DATACLAS, STORCLAS SMS JCL attributes. So with Zfile, i can use SMS attributes to allocate an SMS fi...
4 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration