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Communications Server

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Add support for either DNSSEC or DoH

Nowadays, security is an important concern in every IT area. Data privacy and integrity should be provided for data at rest and data in transit. Traditional DNS protocol running over UDP plaintext is vulnerable for attack, for example DNS spoofing...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Have option for Distributor to reply with reset or not reply if there are no targets available

We are asking that IBM explore adding an option for the distributing stack to not pass traffic to the local stack if there are no current targets available to the distributor. Giving us the ability for when we receive a SYN packet to either have t...
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Simple Ordering of rules in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

When managing the order of rules by selecting the radio button and chose 'Move up' the focus on the selected rule gets lost and I have to select it again which is very cumbersome. The focus must remain on the selected rule to move it up few levels...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Reuse of address groups in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

As more and more policies can be managed by zOSMF Configuration Assistant it would be very beneficial if the address groups can be re-used in the policies to: Speed up creation of new Policies Prevent duplication of data Simplify Management of add...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

NCA: Tailored include/obeyfile should not be limited to LRECL during provisioning

In the z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistance for Cloud configuration; you specify an include and obeyfile for every z/OS image. The 'general' default is a PDSE with FB LRECL 80. The same applied to the 'ezb_cloud_allocate_stack_pdse' workflow as...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

zERT - unneccessary Migration trouble 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5

We were on z/OS 2.3 and have zERT Table Version 1.3.0 in use.After Migration to z/OS 2.4 the zERT-Plugin in z/OSMF tells wrong schema version.So i tried to run Migration Script IZUZNADG, which creates the new statements for getting correct DDL.But...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Need more info on a 401 messages

We have setup alerting based on the return code on on the EZD1286I messagehttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=messages-ezd1286i However we have run into an alerting issue with the 401 code.We need to know if its the Client cert or the Serv...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Change restConnector-1.0 to restConnector-2.0 in izuznagui.<fmid>.xml file

For BMC AMI Ops for Java Environments which we use to measure our JVMs on z/OS we need to specify feature restConnector-2.0 in server.xml. z/OS 2.4 delivers izuznagui.<fmid>.xml file for z/OSMFPlugin IBM zERT Network Analyzer. This file spec...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Provide Job name/ Job number via CSSMTP exit

CSSMTP exit does not provide the JOBNAME and JOB NUMBER for the currently processing JES entry in the ICHRUTKN DSECT as presented to the exit.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered