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Communications Server

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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.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Improvements to Policy Agent

An expired key causes connection failures to DB2. Looking to improve resiliency within AT-TLS implementation
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

SYSLOGD new parm data class

For SYSLOGD a new parameter 'dataclass' under BeginArchiveParms should be available to define the dataclass for archive datasets.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF - Configuration Assistant Backstores Location

Currently under z/OSMF - Configuration Assistant, there is no option to specifiy where files are stored. This causes issues in our environment where 87 copies of z/OSMF exist. We currentlly have /var/ directory setup that is maintanence specific a...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

PAGENT Refresh/Update with specific configuration specification

Enable quick updates to policy without requiring automation to rename policy files. F PAGENT,UPDATE,POLICY=????????
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Adding Bind functionality to PORTRANGE Statements

EZZ0313I BIND OPTION IN PORTRANGE STATEMENT ON LINE 237 IS NOT SUPPORTED IN THIS RELEASE. We need the ability to enter the Bind option on the PORTRANGE Statements just like you have on the PORT statements in the SYS1.TCPIP.PROFILE dataset.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF zERT-Plugin - Database access privileges

We created a service id to be used as zERT Network Analyzer database user ID as described in the document (https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/erin-zhang1/2020/04/03/zert-best-practices-sorting-out-the-different-zos ) ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under 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 ...
almost 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.
almost 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...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

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