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Communications Server

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Allow PORTRANGE be valid on PORTS not defined by a PORT statement

Allow PORTRANGE be valid on PORTS not defined by a PORT statement.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need to separate Stack wide command function from tunnel functions for IPSEC command in SAF

We would like to have a way to separate out the ipsec –f default/reload functions in the EZB.IPSECCMD.**.CONTROL SAF profile so we can assign them to a higher level user and allow other users to still manage IPSEC Tunnels. This separation would al...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

"Warning mode" for CSSMTP User Exit

It should be possible that the CSSMTP Exit EZATCPIPCSSMTPV3 allow something like a warning mode.In that "warning mode" CSSMTP should call the exit and do normal processing. The exit should not reject the mail but create additionally an error repor...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Source Vipa and Interface interaction

We recently attempted to switch from Device Link statements to Interface statements. However we ran into an issue where if a Client lived on the same Host as where the Dynamic Vipa was currently on and attempted to use a Target on another LPAR the...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add encryption status to data visible by default in FTP Exits

Sub Component: FTP Server Description: Our company uses FTP internally for batch jobs to move application data between servers and for administration purposes. We are converting to use FTPS but will have to have both FTP & FTPS active during a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

FTP client and server exits need to be able to provide syslogd message submission

The current implementation of customer developed FTP client and server exits does not allow for a message to output to syslogd.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Add commas in FTP progress messages

We've been using the z/OS ftp client to transfer large files a lot recently.The ftp client reports on the file size that is about to be transfered, and issues a progress message (EZA1485I) every 10 seconds.It would be very helpfull if the amount o...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Externalize additional details about TCP/IP ECSA utilization

The display command support does not provide details about how TCP/IP is utilizing ECSA storage. The DUCB expansion problem recently experienced was identified using a system wide ECSA monitoring tool. Once the problem was identified and linked to...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add Max since last display message to TCPIP,,STOR command

When doing the TCPIP STOR we only get the maximum that the storage for TCPIP has gotten to for the whole time. However if we do things to relieve a situation it would be good to know what the largest Storage was when we last did the command. This ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

CSV Format for NETSTAT DISPLAY Commands

We use a lot of displays to see current system status, Many of these commands have counters that we want to import to excel to be able to track. For example VDPT would be nice to track over time changes in counts or different values (such as TSR)....
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration