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    Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

    For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Provide TLS_NEGKEYSHARE data for TLSV1.2 protocol in zERT Type 119 Subtype 12 Reporting

    We would like to see the TLS_NEGKEYSHARE column in zERT Reporting contain the data which will reflect which elliptical curve is in use. The SMF 119 layout has the field below: 40(X'28') SMF119SS_TLS_Neg_Key_Share 2 Binary Negotiated key share:...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Externalize the new counter for TCP connection out of order segments

    Per IBM support: with Comm Server 2.5 the counter for TCP connection out of order segments is available at the individual TCP connection level. From IBM support it is not yet externalized or available for customer consumption. Currently the only i...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    IPSEC enablement for OSPFv2 with IPv4 to allow for stronger authentication required by the US Government.

    Currently, the OSPF Neighbor peering for our US Government contracts leverage MD5 today. We have an open audit finding stating ---> Since MD5 is vulnerable to 'birthday' attacks and may be compromised, routing protocol authentication must use F...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Move comm server control blocks from ECSA to above the bar common storage

    All of the CSM allocated storage regardless of the requestor (TCPIP, VTAM) is mapped by EXT and HDR control blocks that reside in ECSA. The storage directly allocated by TCPIP or indirectly through CSM for TCPIP usage is mapped by SKMB/SKDB contro...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Enable SNMP subagents to support SNMPv3

    I would like to eliminate as much unencrypted SNMP as possible. To do that it would help if the SNMP subagents (such as IOBSNMP, TCP/IP Subagent and OSPF Subagent) could be configured to work with SNMPv3 (preferably at AES128).
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Future consideration

    NSSD Passticket Authentication with RACF protected Userid

    During initialization of IKED-NSSD communication, IKED has to transfer a RACF Userid/Password or a RACF Userid/Passticket combination. When using a passticket, the RACF userid must not have the RACF protected attribute. When this Userid is used un...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Enhance zERT discovery to be more accurate in recognizing and recording TLS sessions with very large handshake messages and unusual timing

    zERT discovery is currently unable to recognize TLS sessions when handshake messages exceed the maximum TLS record length. It also relies on timers in specific situations that can sometimes generate misleading information regarding TLS sessions th...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

    CSSMTP Add Return-/Reason-Code to Message EZD1813I

    When CSSMTP detects some error during the process of a SMTP Mail which prevents the transmission of the mail to the remote SMTP Server it issues message EZD1813I. This message is WTO issued and can be processed by a System-Automation component. Bu...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Reduce service downtime for sysplex distrubutor as a source address

    Problem description: When the CF structure for SD (Sysplex Distrubutor) is rebuild after a failure will the structure be locked for some time. In our case is it around 1 min and 30 sec in production. Every call when the lpar is client will fail wi...
    9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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