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Communications Server

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Enhance SNI client configuration

In a scenario where a single mainframe client task is talking outbound to a cloud service on a single listener for multiple services, there is no way to configure SNI in ATTLS to support this. The only current way is to split the client task into ...
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 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...
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Communications Server SMTP application (CSSMTP)

it would be helpful to exchange emails using greek languange characters (EBCDIC 875)
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide customer with the option refreshing the msg10 screen when the 'clear' key is hit

Before applying the fix for PQ59246, using a USSMSG10 screen during a TN3270 session logon, when the 'clear' key is hit, the msg10 screen is always refreshed. After PQ59246, it was changed to leave the screen completely clear of any data. Actually...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Health Check for ATTLS

Currently the Health check for ATTLS is the same as the IPSEC health check. However it is not very useful because it does not expose many of the filters and settings used in ATTLS that are not in IPSEC
12 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Display version of USSTABLE, INTERPRET and LOGMODE table

Users have difficulty knowing which version of the various VTAM tables are actually being loaded by VTAM.
12 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Detailed message information for FTP error return codes into FTP message stream vs. having to lookup in the IP Messages & Codes

All users of FTP services for Z/OS communicationns server would benefit not to mention reduced ticket volume for IBM support - fully beneficial in reducing issues and quicker resolution on any FTP issues.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.

Hello, z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA for legacy policies

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT - Allow Exclude IPs from Reports

For some Reports like "show unencrypted communications" it would reduce the List if we can exclude some ip addresses. Even the "local IP" 127.0.0.1 should be excludable The same situation, when server ip and client ip are equal.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

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