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Communications Server

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Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer Performance Improvement

When importing 'large' SMF datasets with ~200m records, the zOSMF NCA Java reads all records to filter filter Type 119 records relevant. In sample this are around 2m records. This process runs for more than 4h (wasting CPU resources), which is ver...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer allow cancellation

When having a big list of datasets being imported, it is not possible to cancel/stop a task. The only way to stop a task is to restart the full zOSMF instance which is very bad as other services rely on zOSMF. A full Server restart just because th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Make MODDVIPA available via a console command

It was recommended recently that we use MODDVIPA to ensure that an IP address remains with the stack. //CDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-c XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* - At the end of the proc, add: //DDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-d XXX.X...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide more granular TCP statistical counters

I'd like to request that IBM add more granular counters for the TCP statistics "EPHEMERAL PORTS EXHAUSTED" value. During a recent incident IBM pointed out that the single TCP stats ephemeral ports exhausted counter can have multiple incrementers: ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Make location of pids for communications server daemons configurable

Serveral of the CS daemon pids (e.g. /etc/syslog.pid, /tmp/pagent.pid) arewritten to directories /etc or /tmp and the location can't be changed. We think /etc is a configuration directory and no daemon should write to it. To /tmp everybody has wri...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Record number of ping requests and responses for TCPIP (By interface), as a network debugging aid

I've spend days trying to configure IP V6 and z/OS, (also with 2 TCP images on one LPAR). It has been very hard to see if traffic has got to z/OS, and if the reply came back. With midrange I can use Wireshark. The equivalent packet trace on z/OS i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT - Match the least common denominator of a rule

With the current setup of Reusable Rules that combines a combination of Traffic Descriptor Data Endpoints TLS or SSH version Protection Characteristics It is required that all of the specifics match to trigger the required action. This beha...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT Enforcement Policy and Policy Agent not adhering to same implementation

When using a zERT Enforcement Policy with two or more Traffic Descriptors, Policy Agent is not able to handle those as a single rule and creates artificially additionalrules for each Traffic Descriptor associated with the zERT defined rule, append...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT Report as well the timestamp

As all records that are loaded into zERT to analyze in the zOSMF Plugin do contain a timestamp, it must be possible to report on the time as requested here as well ZOS-I-3473 but additionally when running a report over few days or a single day, zE...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

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