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Communications Server

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Communication Server IPFilter Logging Enhancement

The ability to only log IPFilter packets of connection handshakes and disconnects instead of every packet.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Change restConnector-1.0 to restConnector-2.0 in izuznagui.<fmid>.xml file

For BMC AMI Ops for Java Environments which we use to measure our JVMs on z/OS we need to specify feature restConnector-2.0 in server.xml. z/OS 2.4 delivers izuznagui.<fmid>.xml file for z/OSMFPlugin IBM zERT Network Analyzer. This file spec...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Batch update for z/osmf rules

Batch view/update facility for z/osmf processing.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Communications Server IP to support SYSLOGD_CONFIG_FILE=DD:<DD-name>

SYSLOGD_CONFIG_FILE parameter is defined as SYSLOGD_CONFIG_FILE=DD:<DD-name> but not documented / supported. This is causing issues with our z/Secure CKFCOLL program as it doesn't recognise this value.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Provide Job name/ Job number via CSSMTP exit

CSSMTP exit does not provide the JOBNAME and JOB NUMBER for the currently processing JES entry in the ICHRUTKN DSECT as presented to the exit.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Need Certificate information added to IPSEC -k display

with IKED their is no way to check when you restart a phase 1 negotiation what Certificate you are using except for the DN information. This is problematic when we do certificate updates since we do not change that information when updating the ce...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Add Byte Counts to Port Statistic SMF records 119 sub 7

There currently is no way to see if there was a spike in traffic coming to a particular port during a time period for TCP traffic. This is something we really need for TCP applications to detect triggering events with our applications. The port st...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

EZB1GAIN getaddrinfo() IPv6 out of SUSv3 and RFC2553 specification

The current implementation for getaddrinfo() - TCP/IP service EZB1GAIN does not behave as the RFC2553 and Single UNIX Specification v3 describe with respect to IPv6. Specifically, the standards indicate the caller of getaddrinfo() can set AF_UNSPE...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

SELECT ACK indicator for TCP connections

Currently there is no way to see if a connection has select ack enabled for a particular connection. This would be useful for connections to understand what is happening with a connection at times if it was part of the NETSTAT ALL display.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

ZOSMF Verification Pop-up before installing configuration

Our team uses z/OSMF Communication Server Configuration Assistant to implement at-tls, ids, and ipsec policy on z/OS 2.2 Communications Server. We would like a pop-up that kicks off on the "Install File" screen after clicking Go. The pop-up would ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

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