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This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Increase SYSLOGD_TCPTHREADPOOL_SIZE as limit of 128 is too low or allow multiple instances of SYSLOGD for network mode

Requirement from storage team to send logs via TCPIP. They have over 130+ devices and requesting to have all the logs sent to same system. Currently 128 is too low.
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

Add to IPCS possibility formatting CTRACE SYSTCPDA data to pcapng sniffer format (currently only pcap format is possible)

pcapng format will keep information which is lost in pcap (for instance interface packet information). This information can be valuable during problem determination
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review