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Communications Server

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Content of Received:- and Message-Id:-Header created by CSSMTP should be customisable

Each Mail processed by CSSMTP a SMTP Received:- and a Message-Id:-Header is attached by CSSMTP. These headers are visible for every node in the transmission path and for the Mail receiver also. Both headers contain security sensible information of...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

When TCPIP stack encountered outbound errors which should produce alert messages for user.

This idea is related to IBM support case TS010912081 that the customer HKEX thought TCPIP should produce alert messages for user when it is encountering outbound type errors.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF : CA : 'SAVE AS' grey for no current file

z/OSMF : Configuration Assistant . Manage Backing Stores When I click on a backingstorefile under 'Manage Backing Stores' and use the Action 'SAVE AS' the tool doesn't save the backingstorefile I've clicked on. It save the backingstore from which ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

z/OS FTP PROXY OPEN support over TLS

We've recently started to enforce TLS encryption for z/OS FTP connections. Some of our jobs use the FTP "proxy" command to request that a dataset be transferred from one z/OS FTP server to another z/OS FTP server. However, when this is done after ...
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Message for when Join does not occur due to Moninterface issue

We had an issue where we were doing some maintenance on our Sandbox system where we had MONINTERFACE coded. The engineer dynamically deleted the interfaces and re added them, minus the Moninterface. When we realized that we weren’t in the TCPPLEX ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - resume data upload after connection to DB2 is restored

Request for z/OS® Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) We would like to request a change for zERT to automatically resume the connection to DB2 and data upload after the connection is dropped.There could be an option to define how many attempts ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Cleint Certificates should not be required when specifying SECURE LOGIN as REQUIRED and SECURE PASSWORD as OPTIONAL.

Many FTP clients from various government and non government organizations connect to us. Some use Z: OS clients and some use non Z:OS clients. The administrators of these clients have various expertise. We wish to migrate as many of the clients to...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

PING Enhancement

On command line when issuing a PING command, I would like to add an additional feature to allow time interval between multiple PING counts. This feature is already available in UNIX OSs. For example: Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time I...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Try other connection paths when one fails

Currently when a connection path fails, if it is best path it will be attempted to be used the next time a session is attempted to the same end point. That is unless you set UNRCHTIM. UNRCHTIM is the amount of time it is deemed unreachable. There ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration