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Communications Server

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Display Current Sysplex on ZOSMF Config Assistant Webpages

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 message to be prominently displayed at the top of each webpage that shows what sysplex ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Provide SOCIPHER support for outbound SSL calls

Currently, CICS 5.1 allows for the recording of which specific cipher was negotiated on an inbound SSL handshake in the CMF performance record. Such support should be extended to outbound SSL handshakes.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Delivered

zOSMF Staging Capabilities

Need the ability to define target stacks to perform a “group” upload and apply.Need change management facilities within zOSMF to allow gradual staging of configuration changes.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

z/OSMF for z/OS Communications Server print out failed

Hello , in the IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server we want to print the health check from the Rules panel. To see our health check Browser output you had to scroll down in the Browser page . If you want to print this output ...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Display specific error messages in the NCA z/OSMF UI pages

When trying to delete a port in the Network Configuration Assistant pages of z/OSMF, the freeing of the port failed with:Internal Server Error - 500CAMSGE There was no other message, which led to a difficult time understanding and resolving the is...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Create a new parameter to allow OMPROUTE to send requests to the DNS Server a specified number of times. related to EZZ3908E.

We are receiving numerous EZZ3908E errors where the DNS Server is not responding before the timeout occurs. I would like to address 2 things. First is that these occur during off hours and there may only be one request. It fail so there is a 100% ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Delivered

CSSMTP is rejecting emails containing nulls if lines are greater then 512 characters.

We at Morgan Stanley want an option setting for CSSMTP that if turned on will treat nulls the way CSSMTP treats blanks. Currently Blanks are not counted in line totals but nulls are.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Support of 256 characters long user names in CSSMTP

We have a mailing application that use long user names of 140 characters length. With SMTPD the MaxUserName value is 256 characters but with CSSMTP this must not exceed 64 characters in length. For upgrade compatibility this limit should be extend...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Allow for Filtering on Needs Install field in zOSMF

Currently in zOSMF you can filter on different columns however you can not filter on if the profile needs to be installed. This would make it easier to be able to install across multiple systems since as you installed they would disappear from you...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

maxttl is same for NEG/POS cache on Resolver..NEG Cache needs seperate maxttl

Currently there is a single maxttl used for positive and negative cache on Resolver. If something happens to cause a negative cache entry to be created then it takes maxttl time for the cache to flush allowing that entry to be resolved again.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered