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Communications Server

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    ATTLS, like IPSEC, should offload encryption to ziip engines

    IPSEC has offloaded the encryption processing to ziip processors, and ATTLS should do the same.
    about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Allow IP Address binding for PORTRANGE statements

    Currently it is only possible to use IP Address binding on PORT statements and not PORTRANGE statements. For a number of application (eg. DB2) where one Server listens on multiple ports that should only be accessed over a particular IP Address, cu...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Sysplex Distributor decisions monitoring

    We consider to implement new settings of sysplex distributor for WAS and DDF workloads. According to manuals, in DISTRIBUTED mode it cooperates with WLM, which assigns weights to each DVIPA network address separately. https://www.ibm.com/support/k...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Add Support for Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) Header in z/OS

    The Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) IPv6 Destination Options (DO) Header is defined in : http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-6man-pdm-option/ (This draft has been adopted by the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group of ...
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Increase VIPADIST limit to greater than 64 ports

    I'd like to ask that the current limit of 64 ports per VIPADIST IP address be increased.
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    More robust wildcarding for Jobname and user id for Attls policies

    We have an increasing number of applications using ATTLS. These applications have names that start with a variable but have the same ending. However the ATTLS policy only allows trailing Wild cards, not wildcards in the middle of the jobname.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    New Parameter: Automatically terminate FTP data session with termination of FTP control session

    Provide a parameter to indicate that an FTP dataconnection should be terminated if the associated control connection isterminated.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Network Configuration Assistant Install History maintenance

    The configuration assistant keeps all the installation history for a stack forever. The only way to reduce the history today is to remove it entirely by copying the stack to a new entity, delete the stack and rename the new entity to the stack nam...
    almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Enhance SNI client configuration

    In a scenario where a single mainframe client task is talking outbound to a cloud service on a single listener for multiple services, there is no way to configure SNI in ATTLS to support this. The only current way is to split the client task into ...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Automated intake of SMF data for zERT (zOSMF)

    Currently SMF records are inserted per user interaction with the zERT Data-Interface. This has huge disadvantages: 1) Every SMF file has to be inserted by hand 2) The data will almost never be at "current level"For example: BMC Mainview takes in t...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

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