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    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.
    almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 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 7 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 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Increase FTP Support for files with a large LRECL > 32767

    We are running into several instances where application areas are unable to FTP files with large LRECL formats. The most common size being encountered so far is 32768. When conducting FTP with the LRECL X command the data still gets truncated/corr...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    CSSMTP NonDelNotifications without embedded message body

    A user tried to send a message containing 84MB of data (several times, because he did not get any feed back). According to CSSMTP's design the original message of 84MB was included into the notification, which was denied by the target server becau...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 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.
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 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 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    PORTL Conflict Notification

    When z/OS TCPIP is intializing and detects a PORT conflict when processing the PORT reservse list (be it an incorrect statement or an error in coding), TCPIP will issue an "I" (Informational message) such as; EZZ0326I NOAUTOLOG CONFLICTS WITH PORT...
    over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

    Add ICMP probe support to the Tracerte tool.

    Currently Tracerte uses UDP packets for the probes and ICMP msgs for the responses. Firewall implementations prefer ICMP Echo & Echo reply msgs for Tracerte. Currently many other implementations either use ICMP msgs or allow ICMP msgs to be us...
    over 12 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.
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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