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    Client Certificate validation on AT-TLS Server with client authentication

    In AT-TLS, when the HandshakeRole parameter is set to ServerWithClientAuth, a certificate request is sent to the client during the handshake. The client can send its certificate to the server, which can then validate the certificate. The level of ...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    10 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    Syntax check for configuration member

    It would be great to have an option to verify syntax of configuration members, namely ATCCON, ATCSTR, to prevent any possible issues to be found out only during IPLs, which are often done during weekends and resolution of such issues can be slowed...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

    Support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server

    The EZANS Netstat dialogue is a vital tool for suporting z/OS Communications Server TCPIP. It is not supoorted and is frozen as a level of z/OS 1.12.IBM should formally support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server:1. to accept PMRs for faul...
    over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Determining CPU Usage per Application in TCPIP Stack

    We would like to determine the cost and CPU usage of each application running under each address space. Specifically, we need to identify how much CPU usage is consumed by each application under the TCP/IP workload. For example, if the TCP/IP addr...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    SYSLOGD zIIP eligable

    Since z/OS V3R1 backported to V2R5 (PH47666), SYSLOGD provides the possibility to send logs to remote systems. This open's a whole new world, like connecting systems to Splunk in a very easy way. In times of every MIPS count, this new possibilitie...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    DFSMS/VM interaction with DRFAMILY on TS7700

    Please consider adding the ability to interact with DRFAMILY on TS7700 from a zVM LPAR (DFSMS/VM).
    10 months ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    zERT plugin to use Certificate for Authentication

    As you know to connect to Db2 for zERT plugin we had to provide the ID / PASSWORD in clear text inside z/OSMF to get it connected initially but as we move along the solution to production environment (UTPLEX ) providing a password for a batchid is...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Support multiple PDR volumes for redundancy

    Currently there can only be one PDR volume for an SSI cluster. If the storage host where the PDR volume resides goes down or something happens to that volume, all the systems in the cluster go down. Even if there are other storage host and a z/VM ...
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

    It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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