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Enhance the resolver to always perform pro-active polling of the DNS servers

Enhance the resolver to always perform pro-active polling of the DNS servers specified in the Global TCPIP data file regardless of whether there's any real resolver API activity or not so that you can get an earlier warning of a DNS problem when n...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

z/OS FTP server should support the character dot/period as one of the special characters for the LS command

Currently, z/OS FTP server does not support the dot/period as one of the special characters for the LS command. Therefore, if the FTP client issues an LS command such as the ones below, nothing is returned:LS .LS /. In UNIX environment, the dot/pe...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

OMPROUTE should retry after receiving ERRNO=112, for higher availability

OMPROUTE daemon gives up too soon when the stack terminates and automation exhausts it't restart attempts before the stack reinitializes.OMPROUTE should be enhanced to perform it's own retry logic, waiting for the stack to come back up before givi...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Problem using ISPF edit REPLACE command

When trying to copy a block of data marked with a pair of "CC" using the REPLACE command and specifying a data set name on panel "Edit/View Replace" (ISRERPL1), this may lead to the following problem. If the data set you specified is a PDS(E) you ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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

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