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Communications Server

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change ezz0401i ezz0303i ezz0318i to Error messages

please will you update the following messages to be Error instead of informational for following as vipa was taken over even though the vipa distribute was not going to workVIPA WAS FOUND ON LINE 197 AND A VIPADYNAMIC PARAMETER WAS EXPEcted - beca...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Requests for improvement : please set the selection to change NODELAYACKS / DELAYACKS even when the response mode.

I can set NODELAYACKS / DELAYACKS the PORT statement in TCPIP Profile, but it becomes NODELAYACKS forces if the response mode is requested.I understand that this logic that has been implemented to improve performance. However, NODELAYACKS is force...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Autoreserve BPXPRM INADDRANYPORTS

In BPXPRMXX you can specify INADDRANYPORT which is used for bind calls. The stack has no indication that these ports have been reserved for this use and you can put a port definition in place without error. however when you attempt to use the port...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

TN3270 access to require user logon to capture user credentials

We'd like TN3270 access to capture a user's security credentials (logon). Tracking users after a TN3270 connection is extremely difficult. We'd like the ability to have their Id available at connection time.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

HealtCheck msg for OMPROUTE SWAP or NOSWAP

Add a HEALTCHECK msg to indicate if OMPROUTE started SWAP or NOSWAP, the preferred and suggested startup it's a NOSWAP ASID
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

FFST F-probe Providing Incorrect Timestamp

Working SR 69213,122,000 IBM VTAM Level 2 tells me there is a problem in which FFST F-probes are not writing the correct timestamp, i.e., the timestamp seen in the EPW9523I message does not match the actual timestamp found in the console log.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Route Advertisement and Creation sequence

During route selection, the preference would be (1) host route first, (2) best matching subnet route, (3) DEFAULT route. To ensure host route would be the best route available at the time of route selection, it seems it is not appropriate to adver...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 11 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 ...
almost 11 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.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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