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Communications Server

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CSSMTP Check SMTP Mail Addresses

CSSMTP does not have a function to control the usage of Sender- and Destination Mail addresses specified in the SMTP-Headers (for example MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, FROM:, TO:, etc.). The check must be based on the RACF user ID with which the JES spool...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Increase SYSLOGD_TCPTHREADPOOL_SIZE as limit of 128 is too low or allow multiple instances of SYSLOGD for network mode

Requirement from storage team to send logs via TCPIP. They have over 130+ devices and requesting to have all the logs sent to same system. Currently 128 is too low.
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

REST-API to IBM zERT Network Analyzer

Expose the IBM zERT Network Analyzer plugin to RESTful API in order to automate some "manual" work.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Reclassifying messages type EZZ8441I and EZZ8438I to Error (E) status

Reclassifying messages type EZZ8441I and EZZ8438I to Error (E) status EZZ8441I PAGENT MODIFY COMMAND UNSUCCESSFUL - SYNTAX ERROR EZZ8438I PAGENT POLICY DEFINITIONS CONTAIN ERRORS FOR image : type They can go unnoticed by automation and by less exp...
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

zERT plugin to use Certificate for Authentication

As you know to connect to Db2 for zERT plugin we had to provide the ID / PASSWORD in clear text inside z/OSMF to get it connected initially but as we move along the solution to production environment (UTPLEX ) providing a password for a batchid is...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow System Symbols in PAGENT Konfiguration files

Currently, it is not possible to use system symbols in the PAGENT configuration files. It would be advantageous if it were possible to use system symbols in the configuration to identify system specific configuration files. This is important when ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

OpenShift Foundation for zCX Support for Egress IP addresses

Currently, we're migrating services from OpenShift x86 to OpenShift in zCX. One of our services have to use Egress IP addresses - this is a security requirement. Once we've configured the Egress IPs within OCP@zCX, we see the outbound SYN coming i...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration