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Communications Server

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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

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

IPFilter deny message more information needed

Ipfilter deny message "EZD0815I Packet denied by policy" only reports source and destination information's. Outgoing calls typically use the sourcevipa from a given IP-stack. It's very hard to find the issuer for this request, typically for outgoi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under 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

SMTP MAXMSGSENT needs retry interval setting

When on user of a tcpip address sends more then 30 emails to another mail server that server turns all emails off to the sending tcpip address.The SMTP MAXMSGSENT can limit how many connections can be sent to a single tcpip connection. If there wa...
about 9 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

Please add zERT information in NETSTAT Displays like AT-TLS

Please add zERT Information for a selected TCP Session and report TLS Version, Ciphersuite and Session Reuse in a z/OS Stack Netstat Report Display like is it available for AT-TLS
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of FTP client port range

Create parm to restrict FTP client ports in the same way FTP server is allowed to restrict passive ports to a specific range.. This will eliminate a common complaint of firewall admins that they don' want to open a large range of ports in the fire...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands

Please look to add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands. The NETSTAT command is already controlled by the EZB.NETSTAT.** profile in the SERVAUTH class.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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