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Communications Server

z/OS resolver should comply with the requirement in RFC 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names

RFC 1034 requires to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names. Based on a recent incident that we experienced, it seems that the z/OS resolver does not do this. We are requesting the z/OS resolver to comply wit...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Enable Sysplex Distributor traffic draining (Disable/Quiesce) for zCX EXTTRG targets

Description In environments using IBM z/OS Container Extensions together with Sysplex Distributor, zCX instances are commonly exposed as TCP targets so that inbound traffic can be distributed across multiple zCX environments running on different L...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

make z/OS FTP does support MLSD

z/OS FTP does not support MLSD, therefore, in Filzilla and other FTP clients, files with more than 99 exdents are not displayed in the file list, with MLSD this would be possible
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Allow the option to enable Policy Based Routing for routed traffic

In our company we have serveral different customer networks and different default gateways, to handle this we use Policy Based Routing (PBR). We want to provide zCX instances to those customers, but zCX is routed traffic, which currently is not su...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Set permission bits in HFS object according to DOD STIC recommendations

We want to be fully DoD STIG compliant and use zSecure to verify this. There are several USS objects delivered by Communication Server which don't have set all permission and/or audit bits set according STIC recommendations. Of course we could chm...
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Allow for inverted filters for TCP/EE Endpoints

Currently the selected filters for the TCP or EE Endpoints do only allow to use include filters. However, I want to specifically exclude a Server and Client address range, which is currently notpossible. Hence, the plugin shall support the option ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Allow Sysplex Distributor to monitor ATTLS health

In the event of an ATTLS Group failure, all connections to the system which are secured with ATTLS would fail. Sysplex Distributor would still forward connections to the sick system even when the other destinations are healthy. Sysplex distributor...
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

z/OSMF - Network Configuration Assistant - Traffic Descriptor smart filtering

Currently in a Traffic Descriptor the Job Name filter does accept wildcard character as the last character. This works but depending on jobname pattern this can result in a large list of traffic types in a traffic descriptor. If the differentiator...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Provide AT-TLS capability to connect with different SNIs to same RemoteAddr

Cloud service providers can provide multiple instances of the same service behind an ingres node that can be addressed by specifying their individual virtual host names for each instance in the SNI headers (server name indicator). Multiple virtual...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

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