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Communications Server

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Add MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA

Please consider adding MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Improve CSM Administrative Usability (settings, monitoring and tuning)

This requirement describes the need to improve various usability aspects of managing z/OS CS CSM storage, in terms of CSM settings, monitoring and tuning. Setting the appropriate values for CSM settings (vs. using system defaults) for a z/OS syste...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable TCPIP command output echo in JESMSGLG

Provide a way to configure TCPIP to not duplicate output from display commands into the JESMSGLG DD for my started task. This could be an optional parameter to disable that echoing of command/output. Example - if I do a D TCPIP,,N,DEV command from...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Asking about unsupported DSM for device optimizer Exinda

System: Optimizer ExindaActor: Device uses advanced algorithms and data analysis to optimize the network.Description: Our team is going to integrate this device's log to Qradar. However, at present, this brand is not supported in a Qradar DSM docu...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add Where used in VIEW DETAILS display of IPSEC rules

When we do a View details it would be great if we can get another spot in the PDF that says what LPARS this is being used in as part of the report
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Please Add Exit for FTP JCL Errors

One of our customers has an JCL job with an FTP step. They are using SITE parameters in that step. When there is an error on the SITE parameter, the user wants to the job to exit with a RC higher than 0. They would prefer RC16. I am not able to he...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Need to break up roles for IPSEC command

We need to get the –f default and the –f reload IPSEC commands seperated from our the other standared commands on the system. This will allow us to assign the proper rolls to them for elevated access. This would also be true for Defense Management...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

NTP server required because SNTP is not precise enough

Implement a NTP server that is more accurate than SNTP server.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Support for multiple IP-stack per LPAR for use with CP&M resource pools

We have multiple IP-stacks per LPAR.There currently is a limitation to use more than one per LPAR for CP&M Resource pools. This limits us from using CP&M Resource pools cloud provisioning of IP-adresses, which is a very important part of p...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide capability to format OSAENTA (concurrently taken from multiple OSAs) in timestamp order

When using IPCS to format OSAENTA traces, have the resulting output be presented in timestamp order even when the input contains traces from different OSAs.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration