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Communications Server

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Enhance Resolver DISPLAY Command

On the current system, there is no mechanism to confirm the set of Resolver options in use for an application. Enhance the MODIFY RESOLVER,DISPLAY command to provide an option to report these value, preferably including the files or data sets used...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

FTP - Submit a JOB from a UTF-8 encoded file

With the openness to the heterogeneous world, Clients most often work with UTF-8 encoding, while the "mvs" part of z/OS works in EBCDIC. We would like to be able to submit JOBs via FTP which on the Client are encoded in UTF-8, and that on the z/OS...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

VTAM ATCCON SYNTAX CHECK REQUEST

Citigroup is looking for VTAM ATCCON SYNTAX checking command/mechanism.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance NETSTAT ROUTE Command Filters

When using the NETSTAT ROUTE report specifying an IPADDR filter, it will report the route that exactly matches that address. Provide a new keyword that will cause the report to list the possible routes that would be used when sending to the specif...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Search order for REXX Socket Translation Tables

The Search Order for ACSII/EBCDIC Translation Tables is described in "IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference". The translation tables for REXX Socket Calls are searched in the following order:1. user_prefix.subtaskid.TCPX...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide syslogd isolation by jobnames for AT-TLS Applications

Provide ability for syslogd isolation for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in syslogd logs. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Granularity for IDS policy

The PMR 94259082000 was opened when it was discovered that enabling IDS caused reporting of malformed packets that were discarded. While the policy was only set to report only mode, the message IDs that we were seeing in the logs were related to w...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance 119 subytype 70 and 3 to include jobname information

I would like to see a field added to the 119 subtype 70 and 3 SMF records so that the jobname can be captured. Jobname information is critical when remediating unencrypted FTP's for PCI.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Add Support for RFC 3522 - Unnecessary Loss Recovery

The Eifel detection algorithm (RFC 3522) allows a TCP sender to detect a posteriori whether it has entered loss recovery unnecessarily.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker for VTAM Startups (ATCSTRxx and ATCCONxx)

I often thought it would be good if commands such as the ones listed below existed to weed out any problems that might occur during IPL time when VTAM starts up. Finding out about a syntax error or missing member from VTAM's startup config lists a...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration