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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...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under 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 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 13 Not under consideration

CSSMTP comply with AUTH by rfc4954

Need to include the AUTH command on CSSMTP component on zOS TCPIP and zVM TCPIP in order to comply with the rfc4954
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Future consideration

CSSMTP Suppport for SASL Methods PLAIN and KERBEROS

CSSMTP Suppport for SASL Methods PLAIN and KERBEROS. Our Security Department requires any Mail Sender to identify itself via 'Simple Authentication and Security Layer' (SASL). Three SASL Methods would fulfill that requirement: a) Method PLAIN. A M...
over 11 years 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.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under 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 5 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...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 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 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 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 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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 ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration