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Communications Server

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Display Public Certificate in AT-TLS Trace

Many times when working with AT-TLS there are mismatched Certificate issues. Especially when you are the client. However even when you have the Tracing for ATTLS turned to 255 you can not extract the public certificate from the flow. 99% of the ti...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

TCPIP startup message

There are a lot of tasks depending on TCPIP startup.Actually there is no real TCPIP startup finished message issued that can an automation tool pick up. There should be a message issued when all functions of TCPIP are ready to do work so that the ...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

CSSMTP default MAIL FROM parametrisation needed

For security Reasons our MS Exchange Configuration requires that the Mailheader always contains the “MAIL FROM:” statement filled with a valid Emailadress.In the case that CSSMTP tries so send a mail notification for an undeliverable mail to the s...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Allow IWQ for appropriate bulk traffic

I am requesting that zOS CommServer and OSA development modify the existing IWQ checks to allow more traffic to be handled by IWQ. We see a lot of duplicate acknowledgements because the TCPIP stack is receiving incoming packets out of order. This ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Comm Server does not support long symbols in z/OS V2.2

Comm Server does not support long symbols in z/OS V2.2
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Enhance zERT to Support Importing from GDGs

Add the ability to import all generations of a GDG when specifying the base. When testing this some generation datasets would get stuck and stay allocated to the z/OSMF ID. This would prevent other jobs from accessing those datasets and would requ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

PING response time to be displayed in Microseconds

Ping command to get the output of the response in microseconds.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Turn off all VTAM trace options including defaults

External customer would like the option to turn off ALL VTAM trace options (VIT) including the defaults which currently can not be turned off.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Allow Changing Slow Start Threshold Default Value

We are currently planning to introduce IIDR (IBM InfoSphere Data Replication) for IMS in our system. The IIDR capture server resides in main site and the IIDR apply server resides in disaster recovery site.These two sites are about 500 KM apart an...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Allow multibox selection in z/OSMF Configuration Assistant when Managing Provisioned Resources

When in z/OSMF Configuration Assistant and Managing a z/OS Cloud Configuration; under (e.q) Port Allocation Ranges > Manage Provisioned Ports.. for a defined Port Range, Users can manual delete ports that were provisioned earlier by Cloud Provi...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered