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    Java Support for AT-TLS aware and controlling applications

    In order to provide an AT-TLS aware or controlling application that is written in Java, you need to be able to call the IOCTL() function from a JAVA native call (JNI) written in C or assembler. The call also needs to provide access to the socket d...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Pagent support for TMPDIR variable

    We need to be able to specify where to have pagent.pid and TCPIP.Pagent.tmp files stored. Currently they are stored in /tmp and there is no mechanism to change that. We have cron scripts which delete files in /tmp after xx days (of not being refer...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future 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 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Make it easier to enabe FTP clients for AT-TLS, in environments that have a variety of FTP servers

    For environments where z/OS FTP client users have to connect to a variety of different FTP servers - especially those that are managed by organizations outside of my enterprise - the need to change AT-TLS policy in order to protect the FTP connect...
    over 13 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Change path to NCA database in z/OSMF

    It should be possible to use the same database from the NCA-plugin from different z/OSMF Instances. So we could define a HA-environment for z/OSMF (running 2 instances)
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Full FTP Support for PDSE

    FTP should support the transfer of PDS to a PDSE load library. There is no potential loss of data to be incurred from this in the way a PDSE to a PDS would be impacted. Currently this is not supported.
    about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

    Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

    The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started. When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire. Or how many days it is until expiration. Or what the name of the cert tha...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

    oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    Operator Command for refreshing keyrings used by AT-TLS

    We have over 200 certificates that we use in our different environments every day with AT-TLS. Since we require to update these certificates once a year. To keep from taking an outage we have to go into z/OSMF and update the key ring instance then...
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    EE over IPv6 needs to use the larger MTU of Jumbo OSAs or HiperSockets

    When EE goes over IPv4 then it uses the available MTU provided by the OSAs or HiperSockets. Did you know that EE over IPv6 does not? It constrains itself to an MTU of 1100 bytes, even though OSPF is telling us the the available MTU is 8192 for Jum...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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