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Communications Server

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PAGENT Refresh/Update with specific configuration specification

Enable quick updates to policy without requiring automation to rename policy files. F PAGENT,UPDATE,POLICY=????????
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Make MODDVIPA available via a console command

It was recommended recently that we use MODDVIPA to ensure that an IP address remains with the stack. //CDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-c XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* - At the end of the proc, add: //DDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-d XXX.X...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IDS Attack Customization - More Granularity

I would like for more customization/granularity with IDS attack rules. Specifically I am requesting the ability to create custom attack rules for specific IP addresses/IP ranges. This would be especially useful for FLOOD rules.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide more granular TCP statistical counters

I'd like to request that IBM add more granular counters for the TCP statistics "EPHEMERAL PORTS EXHAUSTED" value. During a recent incident IBM pointed out that the single TCP stats ephemeral ports exhausted counter can have multiple incrementers: ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP text line too long in attached file

CSSMTP reject a mail with message "text line too long". the rejected mail has an attached file with a LRECL 1032 hence the error since CSSMTP enforce RFC2822 which limit the line length to 998 characters plus CRLF. There was not this problem with ...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance F OMPROUTE,OSPF,STATISTICS

Enhance the MVS Command "F OMPROUTE,OSPF,STATISTICS" to include the size of the built LSAs in the display.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Performance improvement for FTPs MVSPUT

When the FTP subcommand MVSPUT (introduced with z/os v2r1) is used then for each member transmitted a new data connection is established. For a non-encrypted connection, this is no problem, but for an encrypted connection each of those data connec...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Record number of ping requests and responses for TCPIP (By interface), as a network debugging aid

I've spend days trying to configure IP V6 and z/OS, (also with 2 TCP images on one LPAR). It has been very hard to see if traffic has got to z/OS, and if the reply came back. With midrange I can use Wireshark. The equivalent packet trace on z/OS i...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Configuration Assistant: Ability to copy objects from one backing store to another.

Ability to copy objects (Stacks, rules, groups, traffic descriptions etc.) from one backing store to another. Note: this requirement split out from DW RFE 86000
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration