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    De-Mystifying SNMPv3 configuration and eliminating IOBSNMP

    The configuration process for SNMPv3 is (to put it politely) utterly horrible. The snmpd.conf file contains what appears to be a random set of statements with no obvious way of correlating or ordering them. An addtional program - pwtokey - is requ...
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    zERT Report Export

    Under zERT Report panel, provide the ability to export the CSV file directly to either a desktop location (via http or ftp), or to the current z/OS location. A progress monitor would also be helpful during the export operation.
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under 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...
    over 3 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 ...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Need a description field for connection rules in NCA

    When creating IPSEC or ATTLS rules there is no free form area of us to add information in to put in information for the rule and the title is a limited set of characters.The requirement maps give us some of that but really we need this at the LPAR...
    over 5 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....
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance the moddvipa utility to work with (virtual) hostnames.

    The z/OS Communication Server utility"moddvipa" works only with IP's. It should be enhanced to also accept a real or virtual hostname to be independent from the IP which is assigned to the hostname.
    over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

    ftp rdw only works one way

    IBM's z/OS "ftp" program has an "RDW" option. When ftping a VB file in binary mode from mainframe to PC, it will include RDWs in the datastream on the PC (see "use case" for example program). This is an excellent feature. Unfortunately, there does...
    almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

    Add IWQ details to SMF119 subtype 02 records

    The IWQ algorithm change introduced in PH43504 means that TCP/IP connections can move from the primary input queue to the bulk data AIQ at any point during the lifetime of the connection. It would be useful to record details of bulk data queue reg...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

    Timestamp in IKED joblog

    It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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