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Enhance the NETSTAT CONN or ALLC to enable a user to see only summary counts

To enhance the NETSTAT CONN or ALLC to enable a user to see only summary counts if only the counts are needed. For example; how many sessions are established in port xxxxx; or how many are ‘established' ; how many are in ‘LastAck' etc
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide ISPF table IMPORT/EXPORT as ISPF services

Our applications use ISPF table for storing data, manipulating and accessing table entries from high level language programs using ISPF services. User also have a need to process the data statistically and graph the data. Currently, user has to ma...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit Alert Editing File With More Than 999999 Records

When editing a file greater than 999999 lines, a warning should appear to alert the user. This might take the form of a ==MSG> line, or a ISPF short and/or long message.
almost 13 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

CSSMTP Customizable Codepages for zOS 1.12

CSSMTP did not support customizable Codepages, see also MR 1009091825. Beginning with zOS 1.13 customizable Codepages are available. For customers running zOS 1.12 and skipping 1.13 it is a long time from now having customizable Codepages with zOS...
almost 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

FTP Client command LCD to be able to specify Volume/Serial of device when dataset is not cataloged.

Currently the FTP client forces the user to change directory for the ability to transfer a load module since the member name is the only allowed value on the GET, MGET, MPUT and PUT subcommands. When the source LOADLIB resides on an uncataloged FE...
almost 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

A more user friendly and capable CICS EZAC transaction

Dear Sir/Madam, As a CICS team, we strongly need to have an EZAC transaction that is also capable of listing all the listeners defined in the EZACONFG file. In the current one, we should now the LISTENER trx in order to see the deatils of it. If E...
almost 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

rsh should accept parameter-orders in the same way as on z/OS 1.4 and earlier.

As described on PMR 08674,693,760, rsh command of z/OS 1.7 doesn't accept "rsh -l user_name server_name" because of the re-writing of rsh command, however it was accepted on z/OS 1.4 and earlier. Therefore, rsh command should change to accept the ...
almost 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow EE LDLC timer parms (LIVTIME SRQTIME SRQRETRY) to be coded on EE Switched Major Node Group and PU Statements.

Allow EE LDLC timer parms (LIVTIME SRQTIME SRQRETRY) to be coded on EE Switched Major Node Group and PU Statements.
about 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Infoprint blank in recipient addresses

For sendmail to accept recipient addresses with blank we have to add the character " at the beginning and at the end of the recipient address. for example : "paris bp21 expl mf network"@bnpparibas.com works with sendmail. Our problem is that infop...
about 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

CSSMTP text line too long in attached file

CSSMTP reject a mail with message "text line too long". the rejected mail has an attached file with a LRECL 1032 hence the error since CSSMTP enforce RFC2822 which limit the line length to 998 characters plus CRLF. There was not this problem with ...
about 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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