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Communications Server

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Default value for Advertise_VIPA_Routes

Since VIPA is a common implementation for most of the enterprisenetworks, and the setting of Advertise_VIPA_Routes with SUBNET isnot appropriate for VIPA, the default value of HOST_ANY_SUBNETseems not appropriate. In addition, the Advertise_VIPA_R...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SYSLOGD - MTUDISCOVERY option

We'd like SYSLOGD on z/OS to use MTUDiscovery option or provide a way to set max packet size..We are seeing a lot of outbound fragmentation because of SYLOGD sending logs to another server. From PMR: The MTUPATHDISCOVERY option does not exist for ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

PRIMARYINTERFACE Statement modification

update tcpip statement:PRIMARYINTERFACE VIPLC0A82501 so that it waits for the dvipa environment to be created. For example: PRIMARYINTERFACE VIPLC0A82501 DELAY Let it delay until the dvipa environment is created.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DMD sysplex support when defining IPSEC filters

Ability to define a DMD IPSEC filter which will be activated across all of the lpars within a sysplex.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Connect failed for policy server

We are running a large policy server environment with about 50policy clients. We had an incident where some of our policyclients got wrong configuration. They all got the very same policy client name configured. We found policy server did accept t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Dynamically movable Sysplex Distributor Functionality

“Provide an option to specify that ownership of a sysplex distributed dynamic virtual IP address (DDIVPA) would be automatically and/or dynamically moved to various LPARs in a parallel sysplex.”
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

HTTP Connection usage limits

We would like HTTP connections to be dropped (and re-connected/distributed) in the following circumstances: - when the connection has not been used for a specified period of time (already supported)- when the connection has been used for a stipula...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

CSSMTP does not perform the server function

Converting from SMTP to CSSMTP. CSSMTP does not receive mail as SMTP did. We need this function to successfully migrate to the new mailer.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Netview TRMDSTAT Report Enhancements

I am requesting that TRMDSTAT report option be enhanced to include various IP filter reporting.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Mainframe Network Engineer

I'd like to be able to shift workload around dynamically leveraging weighted active DVIPAs under Sysplex Distributor. For example, if LPAR A is receiving upgraded software, I'd like to be able to slowly trickle online workload to it until we are c...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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