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Core Infrastructure

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Update to EE PATH REDIAL mechanism requested

We currently have a small number of EE connections to external clients. Generally our primary and alternate NOI CPs connect to the primary and alternate remote CPs in a full mesh configuration. In our Switched Major node, we code dual (sometimes m...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provided affinity support on the Port statement similar to the Bind option.

This question started this request:You indicate that the support to create DVIPA with affinity is provided on • Socket APIs (SIOCSVIPA and SIOCSVIPA6 IOCTLs) • MODDVIPA utility program Will you be providing it also on the Port statement similar to...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OS SMTP increase MAXMAILBYTES to 3G or greater

SMTP will only allow mail of 2G or less. Customer would like to send emails with data in it from 3G to 10G. This is so employees can work on data at home.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

z/OS SMTPEXIT sample exit to support SAF calls for USER authority

Currently the SMTPEXIT example exit only checks the email is an invalid email address. Because security it so important now a days. It would really help us out if the SMTPEXIT would check RACF SAF interface to see if the user is a valid userid to ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

OMPROUTE auto tracing

Troubleshooting a typical OMPROUTE problem (e.g. OSPF adjacency failure) usually requires an OMPROUTE -t2 -d1 trace that captures the events leading to the problem. Currently, OMPROUTE tracing is not active until it is manually enabled. As such, i...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

LPQ Command - Utilize capturable output method

The TSO LPQ command does not have a method to capture the output via an interactive method (TSO CLIST, REXX, Unix tsocmd, etc.). This is due to the following per IBM support: "Several TSO commands supplied as a part of TCP/IP are written in Pascal...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance MODIFY GR Command to delete generic resource application affinities.

Enhance the "MODIFY GR" delete generic resource command to add the "CHANGE OPTCD=ENDAFFNF" function to the command. For example, you could add an "ENDAFFNF" operand to the "MODIFY GR" command to force terminate any affinities for that generic reso...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DDVIPA message when target app is no longer available-down

We'd like z/OS TCPIP to issue a message when a target app for a DDVIPA - previously available -up - goes down.We'd like to better monitor DDVIPA target apps and get notified.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Stream Control Transmission Protocol for z/OS

Desirable to have SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) for z/OS TCP/IP stack.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Edit recovery doesn't recognize dataset/member being recovered has changed

Edit recovery is unable to tell that the underlying dataset/member has been changed since the recovery dataset was written. Since the entire dataset/member already appears to be being written to the recovery dataset, it should be possible to save ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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