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Communications Server

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Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SMF119-Domain Name

Have SMF119 record keep Domain Name of Local and Remote in the record.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide AT-TLS capability to connect with different SNIs to same RemoteAddr

Cloud service providers can provide multiple instances of the same service behind an ingres node that can be addressed by specifying their individual virtual host names for each instance in the SNI headers (server name indicator). Multiple virtual...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

zOSMF Configuration Assistant Multi-User Support

Enhancements to zOSMF Configuration Assistant to allow for multi-user access.1. Browse only capability to allow multiple users to browse Configuration Assistant while a single user has update capability.2. Action only capability to allow multiple ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

AT-TLS support for limiting which client certificates that are allowed to use an specific IP port

We need to be able to use AT-TLS with client and server verification of certificates. We need to be able to limit which client certificates we allow to connect and use this IP port so that not all certificates from a CA in our truststore (keyring)...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Warning message when the LSA size becomes critical (near hardware MTU size)

IBM Health Checker or OMPROUTE should issue a warning message when the size of the LSAs become critical (near full according to the size of the hardware interface MTUs).The message should be issued before any fragmentation for the Link State Updat...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

SAF Resource Protection for Port 0

Create a SAF Resource or some other type of protection to protect port 0 from IDs requesting BIND / LISTEN. IDs must then be permitted the specific access to be able to do so.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enable support of more than 100 characters passed as parameters to RSH batch from JCL

After z/OS V2.1, JCL PARMDD statement is introduced to be able to pass the long parameter of more than 100 bytes to any program from JCL.But PARMDD doesn't support RSH at the moment because RSH doesn't have LONGPARM attilibute. I used JCL PARMDD s...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT Sessions Exclusion

Provide ability for zERT to exclude loopback to loopback address sessions.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration