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Communications Server

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Message "EZD1314I TCP/IP AND EXTENDED SERVICES ARE NOW INITIALIZED FOR STACK" not living up to its expectations

EZD1314I is supposed to tell us that TCPIP is ready and waiting for work and that it's ok to start applications that depend on TCPIP to be fully active. We wait for EZD1314I to appear at IPL time and yet our TN3270 servers kick out error message "...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Provide new functionality to schedule the import of SMF data to the zNA database

Batch is the preferred method provide the ability to invoke a batch job to import data into the zNA database, outside of zNA, that can be submitted manually or scheduled via a job scheduler or some other scheduled process (i.e., daily) allow the b...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Use more frequent commits when importing SMF data in to the zNA database to reduce Db2 resource consumption

Committing every 1000 inserts would be a good starting point This number needs to be customizable so we can adjust based on our needs as workloads and reporting needs change over time Our preferred solution to the lack of commits would be to use t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Provide new functionality to import data in to zNA using the Db2 load utility instead of inserts

- Db2 load utility can be scheduled as a batch job - Load can be run with log no, reducing the logging overhead - Less resource contention
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Supply z/ERT code as open-source

z/ert is only available for SMF 119 subtype 12.I would like to use the idea of z/ERT to check the other SMF 119 records. Use a z/ERT like program to retrieve certain connection information ex. Subtype 3 or Subtype 22 If the source code would be pr...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Externalize the new counter for TCP connection out of order segments

Per IBM support: with Comm Server 2.5 the counter for TCP connection out of order segments is available at the individual TCP connection level. From IBM support it is not yet externalized or available for customer consumption. Currently the only i...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT - Show a hint when zOSMF NCA will generate multiple policy agent rules

As there is no 1:n mapping from the zERT rules to the implementable policy, zERT will generate as many rules as required and append a suffix like ~1, ~2, ~n. However when coding those rules in the zOSMF NCA GUI there is not hint that the resulting...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP: Spool file should be not be picked up if no target servers are available

When CSSMTP encounters a "EZD1820E CSSMTP NO TARGET SERVER IS CAPABLE OF RECEIVING MAIL AT THIS TIME" condition, it continues to pick up files from spool and put them in a "WAIT" queue for that specific TKID. This can cause some delay in processin...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT Long running reports - Next to Impossible in the current state of zERT

Hi zERT is mainly used to get a cryptographic picture of the systems we manage. That inherently means it is used to analyze the entire TCPIP traffic on the stacks. Now with this much data going in as the input and we in our shop make it a lean ext...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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