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Communications Server

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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

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
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Additional variable support in Configuration Assistant

Additional variable support. Especially the ability to supply a variable address group name - such as $LPAR_Group - where $LPAR would be resolved by a Stack Symbol. note: this requirement was split out from DW RFE 86000
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Create a RACF/Secure Communications redbook

The documentation for setting up secure communications between z/OS lpars/plexes and external sources (that may or may not be mainframe-related) is not at all stream-lined, and I've had to dig into RACF, TCPIP and OpenSSH manuals, along with googl...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Pass CA-TSS informational message to FTP user as signon

FTP users do not see informational messages (last used, password expiring, etc.) from CA-TopSecret at signon. FTP Server needs to be able to pass these messages back to user. Here's CA's comments on FTP and informational signon messages. We (CA) h...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance z/OS FTP to allow copying Datasets cataloged with SSA

z/OS FTP does not support to copy Datasets that are cataloged using an SSA (system specific alias). Either it does not work or a wrong dataset may be copied in certain circumstances e.g. SSAZOS.SYS1.SAMPLIB may point to a z/OS SMP Target Dataset S...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

zERT Data Management History

Under zERT Data Management History, please expand the list of previously attempted import operations, whether successful or not. We would like to have the ability to see the last 2000 (or more) operations. In addition, please add a column / field ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 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 ) ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Additional SMF fields in SMF119-1&2 indicating local interface type

We use the SMF 119 type 1 and type 2 information to do important analytical work to discover the load that we put on our servers. One piece of information we would like to look at is DVIPA Distributed statistics verses say VIPA RANGE so that we ca...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow PORT command to be disabled from FTP.DATA

While I understand there is a SENDPORT command to disable the sendport command for the z/OS FTP client I would prefer an option in the client's local FTP.DATA file to be simply set to disable it.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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