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Communications Server

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Override FTP.DATA at system level

Provide the ability to override FTP.DATA settings at the system level. This would give us the ability to enforce SSL on mainframe FTP client connections going to outbound servers that are not enforcing the use of SSL.There is an existing marketing...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

Java Support for AT-TLS aware and controlling applications

In order to provide an AT-TLS aware or controlling application that is written in Java, you need to be able to call the IOCTL() function from a JAVA native call (JNI) written in C or assembler. The call also needs to provide access to the socket d...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Requesting a way for CSSMTP to send alerts or messages to SYSLOG for failed emails.

We had several hundred mainframe emails from our batch cycles that were blocked and we were not made aware. We need a way to either send these messages to our SYSLOG so that we can look for them or we need a way for CSSMTP to send out an alert so ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add Certificate Information to TLS command

When updating our certificates in our environment we would use a packet trace to confirm that our certificate updates occurred. This method worked since in TLS 1.2 and earlier the Server Hello would have the certificate in visible in the flow. How...
12 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

Pagent support for TMPDIR variable

We need to be able to specify where to have pagent.pid and TCPIP.Pagent.tmp files stored. Currently they are stored in /tmp and there is no mechanism to change that. We have cron scripts which delete files in /tmp after xx days (of not being refer...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Make it easier to enabe FTP clients for AT-TLS, in environments that have a variety of FTP servers

For environments where z/OS FTP client users have to connect to a variety of different FTP servers - especially those that are managed by organizations outside of my enterprise - the need to change AT-TLS policy in order to protect the FTP connect...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Operator Command for refreshing keyrings used by AT-TLS

We have over 200 certificates that we use in our different environments every day with AT-TLS. Since we require to update these certificates once a year. To keep from taking an outage we have to go into z/OSMF and update the key ring instance then...
almost 8 years 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 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

zERT Manage Database

Under zERT Manage Database, provide additional pruning operation abilities based upon an import label number identifier, and / or the System or LPAR name. This will be in addition to the current Prune Database options available.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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