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refresh content by fflush()

In C/C++ Programin Guide, under the title “Buffering of C Streams” It is stated:If you are reading a record that another user is writing to at the same time, you can see the new data if you call fflush() to refresh the contents of the input buffer...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

es_ES.ISO8859-15 requested

We need locale es_ES.ISO8859-15.Many different locales are shipped with z/OS as described on ' z/OS® XL C/C++ Programming Guide', 'Compiled locales' section:http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.cbcpx01/loccomp.h...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Handle LamAlef character when converting from z/OS to Windows

There is a special handling for LamAlef character when converting from Visual (zOS) to Implicit (Windows) and vise versa. The LamAlef character is expanded into two characters (Lam and Alef) and uses the spaces in the source buffer for its expansi...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

LE modification for fork thread behaviour

There are multiple instances in the the core python implementation and in pypi packages where a thread calls fork and the child process tries to create a thread using pthread_create but results in an error. This error is due to the LE design imple...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Fail to open RRDS (V) in C language program

It is failed to open a RRDS(V: variable record length), would you share me some experience on this, or help me to know what's wrong and how to deal with it? The "C" program is submitted through a JCL job in MVS. And someone else met with a similar...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 5 Not under consideration

Provide an interface to regular expression processing for LE conforming languages

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG12001; Voting Priority=2.6 +5=1 +4=4 +3=10 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=2 -1=1 Priority=2.6 IBM should provide an interface to regular expression processing from LE conforming languages that does not require th...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

Search path for DLLs in Executable

Linux has a mechanism to have a default search path embedded in an executable when it tries to load a shared library, equivalent to DLL's on z/OS, called rpath. This path takes precedence over some default search paths such as system search paths ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Change key run-time services routines Language Environment to enable time virtualization software

Time virtualization software like ASG Technologies ValidDate, IBM HourGlass and Compuware Xpediter/Xchange must front-end the operating system Time Service routines and Language Environment runtime to allow users to test applications with future d...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Request new system call from LE on z/OS platform

We have a client who's using C++ collate transform() functions; and has reported an issue with its functionality. After our investigation, our development team has determined that in order to get the desired functionality, we rely on some new func...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Add support for POSIX.1-2001 posix_spawn() and helper functions

Just to avoid any possible confusion, this is not asking for spawn(). The posix_spawn() function and a set of supporting functions provides the user a wrapper around exec/fork and enables them to create child processes with much more control other...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

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