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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...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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 ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 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 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

zERT Enforcement Policy and Policy Agent not adhering to same implementation

When using a zERT Enforcement Policy with two or more Traffic Descriptors, Policy Agent is not able to handle those as a single rule and creates artificially additionalrules for each Traffic Descriptor associated with the zERT defined rule, append...
almost 2 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...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Obviate need for base register when using EZASMI interface

Right now use of the EZASMI interface to TCP/IP sockets programming requires a base register. It would be nice if that were not the case because it hampers development of baseless programs. I'd find it reasonable if a solution were provided based ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SMF119AP_TTStatus to SMF119 Subtype 1 Connection Init

Add the field SMF119AP_TTStatus to the SMF 119 Subtype 1 Connection Initialization record. This field was already added to the subtype 2 - termination record, but should also exist in the init record. This information is known to the system at con...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Display version of USSTABLE, INTERPRET and LOGMODE table

Users have difficulty knowing which version of the various VTAM tables are actually being loaded by VTAM.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance zERT to Detect Non AT-TLS connections.

The product only identifies traffic if it uses ATTLS for encryption. Not all products or app servers connecting to us use ATTLS. For example, MFT is AES256 and yet they show up as unsecured. Same with CICS gateway and others.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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