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Communications Server

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ATTLS policy applied after SOCKS occur for FTP policy

I was attempting to get a proxy'ed connection for FTP to use ATTLS outbound. I could not get the policy to match on IP and Port due to the fact it was using Socks. This means all of the connections that I have going through my Proxy server has to ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide capability to format OSAENTA (concurrently taken from multiple OSAs) in timestamp order

When using IPCS to format OSAENTA traces, have the resulting output be presented in timestamp order even when the input contains traces from different OSAs.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

IPFilter deny message more information needed

Ipfilter deny message "EZD0815I Packet denied by policy" only reports source and destination information's. Outgoing calls typically use the sourcevipa from a given IP-stack. It's very hard to find the issuer for this request, typically for outgoi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

SMTP MAXMSGSENT needs retry interval setting

When on user of a tcpip address sends more then 30 emails to another mail server that server turns all emails off to the sending tcpip address.The SMTP MAXMSGSENT can limit how many connections can be sent to a single tcpip connection. If there wa...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of FTP client port range

Create parm to restrict FTP client ports in the same way FTP server is allowed to restrict passive ports to a specific range.. This will eliminate a common complaint of firewall admins that they don' want to open a large range of ports in the fire...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands

Please look to add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands. The NETSTAT command is already controlled by the EZB.NETSTAT.** profile in the SERVAUTH class.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

syntax checker z/os 2.1 enhance verify valid port portrange statement parms please pmr 69125 Donna

my colleague Nick Down dedeuced that the TCPIP syntaxchecker does not check for consistency between port and portrange statements. This is because the checks are for syntactically correct statements. The syntaxchecker doesn't check for logic error...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

SHAREPORT for PORTRANGE

It would be nice to be able to use SHAREPORT with PORTRANGE
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

NetAccess Support for RFC1700

According to RFC1700, the address block 0.0.0.0/8 to cover range 0.0.0.0 - 0.255.255.255 is used for broadcast messages to this network. Without RFC1700 support there is no way to reserve that IP range in NetAccess to a specific profile covering it.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP Profile - readability of configuration file

The generated TCPIP Profile lacks readability. The installed tcpip profile should be readable, with reasonable indention and spacing.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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