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LE individual modules CEEROPT and CEEUOPT should be treated the same

CEEROPT and CEEUOPT allow for the passage of LE options at the individual job/application level. However, currently CEEROPT and be loaded from STEPLIB while CEEUOPT requires that it be linked with the application/program. CEEROPT is for region lev...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

CEL4RO31 supports multiple threads

Currently when to use CEL4RO31 to do convertion from 64 bits to 31 bit, CELQGIPB just supports one single thread, but can not support multiple threads. For some applications, especially for web application, one request is one thread, so CEL4RO31 c...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

strnlen.c support

strnlen.c is a widely available function in open systems/open source. Currently we have to code our way around this not being natively available in z/OS c/c++. strlen.c is available on z/OS and it would be a great enhancement for us if strnlen.c w...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

Enhance APIs, such as __login_applid() and __pthread_security_np() to support obtaining messgaes from the underlying RACROUTE

RACROUTE VERIFY ENVIR=CREATE provides the ability to return messages back from RACF to the caller of RACROUTE. With the introduction of Multi-Factor Authentication in 2016, these messages provide useful and in some cases essential information back...
over 3 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

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

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

Remove macro expansion branch instruction opcode dependencies from LE runtime routines

At least one LE runtime function (CEEVTOVF) uses branch instruction opcodes within macro expansions (at least EDCPRLG) to determine the language of the caller and bases actions on that language. Assembler macros IEABRC and IEABRCX interfere with t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

CEE3USR equivalent function at the Process Level

LE provides the CEE3USR function to anchor storage at the Enclave level. We would like to use a CEE3USR equivalent function at the Process level. We currently use the LE routine CEEPCB_ZGETST to get Process-Level storage. We'd like to anchor it of...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration