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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...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Increasing Security and Control for FTP JES Interface

Provide mechanisms for disabling and restricting the use of the FTP JES interface.Add a JESINTERFACELEVEL=0 option in configuration file FTP.DATA to prohibit FTP users from interfacing with JES. Allowing access to JES from FTP introduces a securit...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 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

zERT - Passphrase Support

zERT must support Passphrase for authentication and not only 8 char passwords.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 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

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

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

CSSMTP support for RFC4954

CSSMTP needs to support RFC4954 for TLS connectity to Microsoft Exchange servers.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Update SYSLOGD to support sending data via TCP

We have a requirement to send SYSLOGD data to another server but we need to send it via TCP and use ATTLS to encrypt the data. The current implementation only allows for sending via UDP and doesn't allow for a different port specification.
over 6 years 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

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