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    Comms Server IP and SNA Display Disconnect

    A telnet LU pool can be exhausted without being able to tell from VTAM displays if the telnet server has no DEFAULTAPPL or USSTCP coded. The connection failure message on the client is quite generic and doesn't help identify the cause of connectio...
    almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Connect failed for policy server

    We are running a large policy server environment with about 50policy clients. We had an incident where some of our policyclients got wrong configuration. They all got the very same policy client name configured. We found policy server did accept t...
    almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

    Configuration Assistant Health Reports

    When I create a health check report for it seems to be missing critical information. IPSEC health check shows nothing for the time conditions unless you go to a specific rule and view details. QOS health check shows nothing for the advanced sysple...
    almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Provide diagnostic aide in ISPF TEST to see VDEFINE definition used for a variable

    During development and problem diagnosis, it is discovered that a variable has incorrect content (shorter than expected, typically). ISPF TEST option 3 is used to see the content during the diagnosis effort to isolate the problem. If I could see h...
    almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

    Dynamically movable Sysplex Distributor Functionality

    “Provide an option to specify that ownership of a sysplex distributed dynamic virtual IP address (DDIVPA) would be automatically and/or dynamically moved to various LPARs in a parallel sysplex.”
    about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    ISPCCONF - Add PF Key Definitions

    Allow the ISPF Configuration Utility to define all 24 PF-Keys for the site.
    about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 6 Not under consideration

    Member List - Add Block Line Commands

    Allow Member List line commands to be entered in blocks. A block of line commands is marked by entering two forward slashcharacters (//) at the start and end of the block. The required line command is entered on the first or last line of theblock,...
    about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

    move ISFP variable storage from "below the line" to include "above the line"

    the PL/I application gets S878 Abend when running in a stressed scenario, the problem determination documented in PMR 86996,999,000shows that ISPF runs out the below the line storage. The recommended solution is to request ISPF to implement an enh...
    about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

    determine file size when viewing workstation file

    ISPF and its workstation agent should be changed so that they can determine the size of the workstation file being viewed and allocate a sufficiently large z/OS work data set to avoid the out-of-space condition.
    about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

    IDS Flood IP Address(s) Exclusion

    We would like to be able to exclude an IP Address(s) for an IDS Flood Attack. We currently can only exclude and IP Address(s) on these type of attacks: TCP Queue Size Attack EE Malformed Packet Attack EE LDLC Check Attack EE Port Check Attack EE X...
    about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

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