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Communications Server

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DATAQ option on NETSTAT SOCKET

A new filter 'dataq' on the netstat command would help to isolate misbehaving applications and allow the administrator to use netstat drop to terminate the connection and free the storage in CSM constraint conditions.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Need more info on a 401 messages

We have setup alerting based on the return code on on the EZD1286I messagehttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=messages-ezd1286i However we have run into an alerting issue with the 401 code.We need to know if its the Client cert or the Serv...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

TCP/IP Selective ACK

To my knowledge the z/OS TCP/IP stack still does not use Selective ACK (RFC 2018).
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Resolver output message when nameserver is not responding and stop using that nameserver

If a nameserver is not responding, it would be helpful if the resolver could output a message to the console to indicate there is a problem. The next step would be to stop using the nameserver, for an amount of time, if another nameserver can be u...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Disable gethostbyaddr lookup for otelnetd

Customer does not want to see messages:EZYTE52E Couldn't resolve your address into a host name. IP address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx In syslogd. The customer wants an option to turn this off.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Resolver to be able to detect when Primary name server is down and remove it from the searching list

Currently the resolver will lookup the name server via TCPDATA NSINTERADDR statementorder no matter if the Primary server is hard down or not, customer have some timing senstive application, and request Resolver to be able to detect when Primary n...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Enabling wildcard support for jobname in PORTRANGE

The PORT startement support wildcards for jobname parameter, however the PORTRANGE statement does not support it.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

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