Version 17.0.12.1

The new features and functions available with this release are listed here.

This refresh contains the latest IBM® fixes, the most recent OpenJDK level, and the following new features.

OpenJ9 features

This release contains features from the 0.46 release of the Eclipse OpenJ9 project, as listed in the Version 0.46.0 OpenJ9 user documentation. The bug fixes included in OpenJ9 Version 0.46.1 are also included in this release.

OpenJ9 0.46.0 introduces a new Data Access Accelerator (DAA) library class and API com.ibm.dataaccess.ExternalDecimal.checkExternalDecimal(). This API allows one to verify the validity of the sign and digits of a given external decimal input, thus helping ensure conformance before operating on the data. This API supports external decimals with all four sign configurations as follows:

Sign embedded trailing (with and without spaces)
Sign embedded leading
Sign separate trailing
Sign separate leading