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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

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

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

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

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

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 2 years ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

Make it easier to format a dormant CEEPIPI enclave in a dump

When a dump contains a dormant CEEPIPI environment, the only handle available may be the token returned when the environment was initialised.This can be used in the "VERBX LEDATA 'PTBL(address)' command to format the PreInit table, but there is no...
6 months ago in z/OS / LE 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...
12 months ago in z/OS / LE Future consideration

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