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Communications Server

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    Enhancement on TCP/IP DROP command

    Right now, tcp connection could be dropped by vary tcpip drop command based on the connection id. However, user would like to drop connection straight forward by the destination ip address, instead of spending time on checking the connection id by...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    FTP should supply additional error information for TLS issues

    For the z/OS FTP client, when there is a TLS negotiation error the application provides very little information that allows a non-expert to determine the actual cause of the issue. The FTP client should provide additional information. Specifically...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future 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 ...
    about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

    MVSPUT Default trasfer type

    When transferring data between two MVS systems which are EBCDIC environments the default transfer type should be set to EBCDIC instead of the default client ASCII 7-bit as it is currently when using MVSPUT or MVSGET commands. There is a guarantee ...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 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...
    almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Clarify use of UID(0) and BPX.SUPERUSER for osnmpd

    The z/OS server osnmpd (SNMP daemon) is documented as needing either UID(0) or to have read access to BPX.SUPERUSER in FACILITY class. Empirical evidence shows that it work satisfactorily with neither. Please clarify the security requirement for o...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under 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 ...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

    Add syntax check to the Policy Agent image / parameter dataset

    This function could catch syntax errors in the parameter dataset prior to implementation reducing potential outages.
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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