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Override FTP.DATA at system level

Provide the ability to override FTP.DATA settings at the system level. This would give us the ability to enforce SSL on mainframe FTP client connections going to outbound servers that are not enforcing the use of SSL.There is an existing marketing...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

LE's Heap Latch should be FIFO, not LIFO

Serialization via LIFO has the negative effect of leaving the first task in to never obtain the resource when processing is very busy. FIFO allowed everyone the chance to get in and get out with little delays even during a busy time.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

MONITORING CF LINKS

IBM defined a specific msg-ID IXL158I to identify CF Link with status NOT OPERATIONAL but we don't have msg-ID when the link is ONLINE-DEGRADED. Instead, link DEGRADED is provided as a result of the command /D CF,CFNM=CFXX but isn't the more effic...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Allow a callable workflow to call a callable workflow

Currently an error is produced when a callable workflow attempts to call a callable workflow. Please remove this restriction.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

RVARY password reply handling should be changed

When issuing RVARYPW (reply after having issued rvary command) it is displayed in clear text in operator's console log. This is a big difference to z/OS reply handling and should be changed in z/VM. The input to this reply should be hidden to avoi...
almost 8 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

zERT - Allow filtering for cipher suites

Please add a filter criteria for CipherSuites, like 009D or C027. So it is a quick view over used certificates, and we could reduce our AT-TLS rules for longer unused ciphers. Alternative would be a filtering with multiple parts, like AES_CBC_128 ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

USS Health Check for MOUNTS limit

a USS Health Check would give a warning for when a threshold was crossed, alerting users to a fixed limit for the number of files that can be mounted.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

Make location of pids for communications server daemons configurable

Serveral of the CS daemon pids (e.g. /etc/syslog.pid, /tmp/pagent.pid) arewritten to directories /etc or /tmp and the location can't be changed. We think /etc is a configuration directory and no daemon should write to it. To /tmp everybody has wri...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Requesting a way for CSSMTP to send alerts or messages to SYSLOG for failed emails.

We had several hundred mainframe emails from our batch cycles that were blocked and we were not made aware. We need a way to either send these messages to our SYSLOG so that we can look for them or we need a way for CSSMTP to send out an alert so ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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