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Better support for PDS members in z/OS C library

The z/OS C library has poor support for PDS and PDS/E. Specifically, when using fopen() to read or write members, there are no facilities to: 1) obtain existing user directory entry info (read and write)2) update user directory info (write)3) supp...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

CELAAUTH not supported on existing LE enclave

Java application that performs threading is unable to use z/OS Communications Server AT-TLS to protect TCP connections owned by the IPT. The z/OS Communications Server AT-TLS support switches to a CELAAUTH environment running on the application un...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Fixing the CICS-LE Recovery Loops

When there is an overlay of either an LE or CICS control block in a CICS environment, CICS & LE can get into a loop trying to abend/recover from the failure.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Planned for future release

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in Z/OS with EDCICONV don't generate carriage return

There's no way to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII or Unicode without copy the file to USS With the utility EDCICONV the file generated don't get any carriage return (crlf or lf). This can easily be done under USS. However, we are looking to pe...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Supporting all date and time formats of DB2

We use the DB2 date and time formats in our programs. Therefor it is necessary that the language environment - that is the software LE - supports all date and time formats that DB2 supports.Supports means (examples):- day-zero is accepted (00-00-0...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release. System: LE on z/OS USS Actor: SAP support experts or any other USS C code developer with the necessity to debug the stack trace of a process SAP support experts w...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Print LE conforming assembler Stack frame storage in CEEDUMP

First I am not sure why LE Stack frame storage is considered language dependent and requires the language to format and print for CEEDUMP. Maybe it is assumed that there will be symbolic data available to match the fields with labels. The LE entry...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Create LE STORAGE and OPTIONS reports wh

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0313072237User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC07003Title: Create LE STORAGE and OPTIONS reports when program abendsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APL...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

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