Known issues and limitations

IBM® SDK for Node.js - z/OS® has the following known issues or limitations:

• The current release requires an address space of at least 700 MB. Use the ulimit -A command to set or display the maximum size of the address space.
• The Node.js fs.watch API on subdirectories is not supported on z/OS.
• You cannot use IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools – Interactive Diagnostic Data Explorer.
• There is no Node Application Metrics component in this release, so you cannot use IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools – Health Center to monitor your applications.
• Node Inspector is disabled in this release. There is a built-in debugger client that can be used for debugging.
• Some C++11 and C11 features are not supported or have limited support:
  • Thread local storage - not supported
  • Thread specific locales - not supported
  • Atomics - limited support (non-lock-free atomics are not supported)