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Communications Server

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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...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future 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...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Request IP address override for FTP server response to PASV

We are unable to support our customers who connect through our proxy server over the internet when we turn on at/tls because at/tls does not support 3-way communications. This feature is a common feature of my Windows FTP server partners. This fea...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add support for MTU size in OSPF DD packets as per RFC 2328

Add the MTU size to OSPF Database Description packets in accordance with RFC 2328
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add PIPELINING support in CSSMTP

The SMTP PIPELINING FUNCTION can increase the performance of transmitting SMTP mails to the remote SMTP Server (MTA). Especially in cases where a large number of mails have to be transmitted. CSSMTP does not support the SMTP PIPELINING function.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Override system wide LE STORAGE(,,0,) setting within FTP to avoid high cpu when transferring tape files

We recently entered a case TS009032448 at IBM in which we addressed a FTP high cpu issue. Transferring a file from disk took less then 1 cpu sec and when transferring the file from tape it consumed 36 cpu seconds. After thorough investigation it a...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

have syntax checker fo pagent

If I want to change pagent, I update the configuration file, and issue F pagent,refresh on the production pagent. If there are problems, I have to roll back and redo the changes. This is not production like behaviour. You can only have one pagent ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF RENAME BACKSTORE FUNCTION

We need a way to rename a backing store from the z/OSMF configuration menu
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Preview mode for Policy Agent

“Northern Trust wants a “preview mode” for Policy Agent. They would like Policy’s to have the ability to preview what would happen if this policy was active. In preview mode, if this policy was active, this would have happened “x” number of times....
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance FTP DIR Results for PDSE

Enhanced the results of the FTP subcommand DIR to report a PDSE as PE or PO-E, instead of as PO where it can be confused with a PDS.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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