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    IPSEC enablement for OSPFv2 with IPv4 to allow for stronger authentication required by the US Government.

    Currently, the OSPF Neighbor peering for our US Government contracts leverage MD5 today. We have an open audit finding stating ---> Since MD5 is vulnerable to 'birthday' attacks and may be compromised, routing protocol authentication must use F...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Set the owner for comm server owned common storage

    When reviewing 24/31 bit common storage usage, comm server owned storage shows up as owned by *SYSTEM* making it more difficult and time consuming to determine what in system owned storage grew. It would make analysis easier if comm server owned c...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Move comm server control blocks from ECSA to above the bar common storage

    All of the CSM allocated storage regardless of the requestor (TCPIP, VTAM) is mapped by EXT and HDR control blocks that reside in ECSA. The storage directly allocated by TCPIP or indirectly through CSM for TCPIP usage is mapped by SKMB/SKDB contro...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Enhance the IPSEC command to delete a shadow tunnel

    We hit an issue where the main SWSA tunnel came down but one of the shadow tunnels remained active and thus caused our server on that host to become unresponsive. We had no way of removing the shadow tunnel to resume our workload on that LPAR and ...
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    IPSEC Decryption Option when taking a Ctrace

    We need an option when taking a IBM packet trace then processing a trace in IPCS to be able to display the TCP headers when using the IPSEC protocol. Please see a case that we opened up on July 3rd of 2018, Service Request # 37388 122 000.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    zERT SMF import from tape dataset

    Currently, zERT can import SMF119 record only from DASD.All our SMF dumps are migrated to tape dataset after a couple of days later.We have to run JOB to copy tape SMF data to DASD then import into zERT.It will be helpful if we can import tape SMF...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Enable SNMP subagents to support SNMPv3

    I would like to eliminate as much unencrypted SNMP as possible. To do that it would help if the SNMP subagents (such as IOBSNMP, TCP/IP Subagent and OSPF Subagent) could be configured to work with SNMPv3 (preferably at AES128).
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Future consideration

    NSSD Passticket Authentication with RACF protected Userid

    During initialization of IKED-NSSD communication, IKED has to transfer a RACF Userid/Password or a RACF Userid/Passticket combination. When using a passticket, the RACF userid must not have the RACF protected attribute. When this Userid is used un...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant to support shared configuration in a sysplex

    Using the Network Configuration Assistant within z/OSMF you first create a z/OS Group (type Sysplex) called PLEX1 say, then add a z/OS System Image (type System Image) into the group called MVSA, and then add a TCP/IP Stack (type Stack) under the ...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

    Provide customer with the option refreshing the msg10 screen when the 'clear' key is hit

    Before applying the fix for PQ59246, using a USSMSG10 screen during a TN3270 session logon, when the 'clear' key is hit, the msg10 screen is always refreshed. After PQ59246, it was changed to leave the screen completely clear of any data. Actually...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

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