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Communications Server

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Move Policy Agent processing to above the bar to correct storage exhaustion errors during policy REFRESH/UPDATE

We are building an ipSecPolicy file for REFRESH/UPDATE into PAGENT for load to TCPIP for packet management. In defining our rules, we've found we have a very large Policy Agent definition file to cover such disparate issues as VIPA, DVIPA, Enterpr...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future 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 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Clarify use of UID(0) and BPX.SUPERUSER for osnmpd

The z/OS server osnmpd (SNMP daemon) is documented as needing either UID(0) or to have read access to BPX.SUPERUSER in FACILITY class. Empirical evidence shows that it work satisfactorily with neither. Please clarify the security requirement for o...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under 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...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhancement on TCP/IP DROP command

Right now, tcp connection could be dropped by vary tcpip drop command based on the connection id. However, user would like to drop connection straight forward by the destination ip address, instead of spending time on checking the connection id by...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 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 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Future consideration

zERT - Match the least common denominator of a rule

With the current setup of Reusable Rules that combines a combination of Traffic Descriptor Data Endpoints TLS or SSH version Protection Characteristics It is required that all of the specifics match to trigger the required action. This beha...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

MVSPUT Default trasfer type

When transferring data between two MVS systems which are EBCDIC environments the default transfer type should be set to EBCDIC instead of the default client ASCII 7-bit as it is currently when using MVSPUT or MVSGET commands. There is a guarantee ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Communications Server SMTP application (CSSMTP)

it would be helpful to exchange emails using greek languange characters (EBCDIC 875)
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Content of Received:- and Message-Id:-Header created by CSSMTP should be customisable

Each Mail processed by CSSMTP a SMTP Received:- and a Message-Id:-Header is attached by CSSMTP. These headers are visible for every node in the transmission path and for the Mail receiver also. Both headers contain security sensible information of...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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