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Communications Server

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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...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP Check SMTP Mail Addresses

CSSMTP does not have a function to control the usage of Sender- and Destination Mail addresses specified in the SMTP-Headers (for example MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, FROM:, TO:, etc.). The check must be based on the RACF user ID with which the JES spool...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

TCP/IP leaves the group EZBTCPCS with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin it again.

After a lack of ECSA in a member of a 4-way sysplex, TCP/IP leaves it with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin the XCF group again.Even when we have GLOBALCONFIG SYSPLEXMONITOR AUTOREJOIN options active and the problem that caused t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 13 Not under 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
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Add DTLS Support for Enterprise Extender

We would like to see if DTLS could be added in Enterprise Extender so we could use SSL with UDP.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

REST-API to IBM zERT Network Analyzer

Expose the IBM zERT Network Analyzer plugin to RESTful API in order to automate some "manual" work.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

CSSMTP needs to redrive DNS lookup other than at startup

Current CSSMTP functionality only resolves DNS names to IP addresses on product startup. PMRs and questions have led to responses that indicate the implementation ignores the DNS time to live (TTL) parameters and, quoting from the PMR, "... elimin...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

Add Support for Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) Header in z/OS

The Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) IPv6 Destination Options (DO) Header is defined in : http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-6man-pdm-option/ (This draft has been adopted by the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group of ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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