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Communications Server

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EAV support for TSO LPR command

Customer uses the LPR command in their environment and are in a project to implement EAV. They ran the Tivoli utility EAV tracker to find programs that are not EAV ready. LPR was listed in the results and this is one of the tools they use. They re...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Resend DeadLetter Emails for Communications Server SMTP

We have email jobs that are undelivered due to various reasons. Could there please be a way to retrieve the emails stored in the deadletter directory and re-send the emails without re-submitting the job that generated them.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Make OMPROUTE ARMable

I request that IBM make OMPROUTE ARMable. I prefer this solution than using our regular automation. It gives my group more control over omproute
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Discription field to Address Group Display for Configuration Assistant

When you do a View Details on an address group you only get the addresses .. it does not have the description field in the view details. Nor does it appear in any of the rules display etc. This is important to figuring out what the IP Addresses re...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 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.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

TN3270 LU USSTCP mapping

We need to replace network gateways with TN3270 client access. One of the requirements is to have specific LU names with specific USSTCP tables, but many (thousands) clients use the same IP address (NAT). The client selects a specific LU name. We ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

NETSTAT VDPT display include active/quiesce state

Currently the NETSTAT VDPT display does not show whether or not a target is active or quiesced for SYSPLEX distribution. This information could be added to the NETSTAT display output.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

TCPIP profile needs better handling for deprecated parms / out of order parms

Hi IBM, This past weekend, we had the upgrade on our production systems AMVS , where we moved from 2.1 to 2.2,post the IPL we had TCPIP that came up without IPSEC as we had a degraded parm in the IPCONFIG block. The problem was that a deprecated k...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Syslog Daemon

Syslog daemon doesn't support multi-line for -N destination rule.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

OPEN ACB in LUNS/LUNR sysplex fail doa CDRSC cleanup not yet completed

The LU was connected to TN3270AT on PRDB using client IP address 192.168.20.229 (Telnet proxy) when it connected at the telnet server on PRDA using client IP address 192.168.20.228 49089 which kicked off TAKEOVER processing. Telnet server on PRDB ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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