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    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...
    over 1 year 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...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future 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 6 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 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 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...
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

    Provide new functionality to schedule the import of SMF data to the zNA database

    Batch is the preferred method provide the ability to invoke a batch job to import data into the zNA database, outside of zNA, that can be submitted manually or scheduled via a job scheduler or some other scheduled process (i.e., daily) allow the b...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

    zERT - Simple data import

    With the current import UI for zERT one must specify all possible Datasets manually. If you have many Datasets it is very cumbersome to add all of them. Allow generic naming's to import for example.
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

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