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Communications Server

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zERT Data Management History

Under zERT Data Management History, please expand the list of previously attempted import operations, whether successful or not. We would like to have the ability to see the last 2000 (or more) operations. In addition, please add a column / field ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Additional SMF fields in SMF119-1&2 indicating local interface type

We use the SMF 119 type 1 and type 2 information to do important analytical work to discover the load that we put on our servers. One piece of information we would like to look at is DVIPA Distributed statistics verses say VIPA RANGE so that we ca...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

CSSMTP NonDelNotifications without embedded message body

A user tried to send a message containing 84MB of data (several times, because he did not get any feed back). According to CSSMTP's design the original message of 84MB was included into the notification, which was denied by the target server becau...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

z/OSMF zERT-Plugin - Database access privileges

We created a service id to be used as zERT Network Analyzer database user ID as described in the document (https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/erin-zhang1/2020/04/03/zert-best-practices-sorting-out-the-different-zos ) ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request for the NETSTAT TTLS Command

There are certain environmental options that are not visible within an ATTLS Group such as the number of worker threads, CELAAUTH environments, and the count of queued work elements. This causes us to have situations where we are forced to take a ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance zERT to Shut Off SMF 119 Subtype 01/02

The existing 119 subtype 01/02 is a subset of the new zERT 119 subtype 11/12. They should have the ability to shut off the 01/02 OR use the existing data from them - combined with a few additional fields in 11/12 to make one SMF file. Currently, t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

PORTL Conflict Notification

When z/OS TCPIP is intializing and detects a PORT conflict when processing the PORT reservse list (be it an incorrect statement or an error in coding), TCPIP will issue an "I" (Informational message) such as; EZZ0326I NOAUTOLOG CONFLICTS WITH PORT...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Enhance SERVAUTH EZB.PORTACCESS SAF checks to validate Port Usage Intent

Please update the code that calls SAF for EZB.PORTACCESS to not just grant access based upon the RACF profile access control list but to go a step further and validate the intent of use of all ports. A mode of operation where the potential impact ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Need a display to show what ports are not reserved

Very often we are asked to find ranges of ports for new applications to use. We usually use the netstat -o option to find what is reserved then work backwards. This is a bit clunky as you have mixes of ports and port ranges that you have to accoun...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add ICMP probe support to the Tracerte tool.

Currently Tracerte uses UDP packets for the probes and ICMP msgs for the responses. Firewall implementations prefer ICMP Echo & Echo reply msgs for Tracerte. Currently many other implementations either use ICMP msgs or allow ICMP msgs to be us...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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