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have CEEZ1IPT fail more gracefully

When an application is using PIPI, and the PIPI Main code creates children but then completes back to PIPI, future services that need the IPT will fail with an Abend0C4 in CEEZ1IPT due to not getting a CAA address from CEEARLU.CEEZ1IPT needs valid...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

CELQPRLG to support creating MAIN routines

Currently only subroutines are supported, so one must use a high level language that supports creating LP(64) main routines, which in turn requires the language runtime for that language to be initialized, which may be undesirable for certain kind...
10 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Monitor the z/OS Language Environment Heap Usage

The usage/allocation of the LE Heap storage would affect the performance of the IBM CMOD product that is using it. In the reported case, when the LE Heap is not properly tuned, high CPU consumed by the CMOD address space is observed. Although the ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow modification of CEEDUMP naming convention via parms

Currently, there is no means to change the CEEDUMP naming convention. The LE code uses /path/CEEDUMP.date.time.PID or /path/FNAME.date.time.PID, which may not match the convention a customer uses for other trace and dumps in Java. Providing such a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Callable Service for RFC 4122

UUID generation (similar to UUID@GEN in TCPIP SEZLOAD) should be available as a callable service to generate an RFC 4122 compliant unique user id.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Allow disposition to be specified on fopen

DISP=SHR cannot be set when fopening a file in write mode. In read mode it defaults to DISP=SHR. If the file is a PDS(E) member, this locks out the whole PDS(E) so that no-one can browse the other members. If you use a DD Card, then you can specif...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

LE Load Notification User exit : Add RMODE indicator values to CEEFLG in CEELNUE csect

In the LE Load Notification User exit it would be very valuable to identify the RMODE of the program which caused the exit to be accessed. 24-bit and even 31-bit storage can be exhausted in environments with many architectural modules for IMS appl...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Support Posix semaphores

The Posix semaphore mechanism (defined by these APIs: sem_open/sem_close/sem_unlink/sem_trywait/sem_wait/sem_timedwait/sem_post/sem_init/sem_destroy/sem_getvalue) is an alternative to the XSI semaphore mechanism currently implemented in z/OS. Posi...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

PTHREAD library always emit error when SYSIN comes from SYSIN dataset and unconditionally opens SYSOUT

When our C++ application code make the first thread creation call to pthread_create() the language environment implementation unconditionally goes and opens the SYSIN and SYSOUT DDnames. Our application can, in most circumstances, already be readi...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 4 Not under consideration

Enhance authentication APIs to support returning Identity tokens and accepting them for authentication

RACF recently (z/OS v2R4 and PTF'ed back to z/OS v2R2) added the ability for RACF to return identity tokens which are actually JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and to be able to use them in lieu of a password for authentication. Can APIs, such as __passwd()...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration