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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()...
about 4 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

bsearch library function for Metal C

Given the Metal C run-time library includes qsort, it should include bsearch
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

Option to report silent exception handling in LE

During some performance analysis we discovered in CICS trace a huge amount of S0CA - decimal overflow - interrupts caught and recovered by Language Environment. These were caused by a simple ADD statement in a cobol program which runs in an ILC en...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Initialize DLLs upon program startup

All global variable initialization should happen for all DLL's that are implicitly loaded in an application before 'main' is invoked.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Additional C functions for Linux portability

Add strnlen and wcsnlen (as on Linux) to the C runtime library.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Extend CEEENTRY to support Debug Tool "Delayed Debugging"

Actually Language Environment Assembler Programs do not support Debug Tools Delayed (or Deferred) debugging due to the fact that the CEEENTRY macro does not register for "New Program Entry Point Event" as is done for LE Enabled COBOL, PLI and C/C+...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Enhance performance of fseek on multi-volume FBS data sets.

Function fseek should offer the same performance on FBS data sets regardless of how many volumes they are stored on.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

LE __heaprpt() that doesn't freeze all threads

We use the LE callable service __heaprpt() from C++ but it causes all threads to be frozen. Can we have a version that doesn't freeze threads (i.e from volatile fields in control blocks)? We don't mind if it's closely approximate.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

CEEDUMP truncated names of entry points

When forming CEEDUMP truncated the names of the entry points. Printed only the first 64 characters. CEEDUMP must contain a fully qualified entry point names.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration