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ATTLS policy applied after SOCKS occur for FTP policy

I was attempting to get a proxy'ed connection for FTP to use ATTLS outbound. I could not get the policy to match on IP and Port due to the fact it was using Socks. This means all of the connections that I have going through my Proxy server has to ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Connect keyring to another keyring as an extension to the first

Allow a Key Ring to be connected to another key ring as an extension to the first -- all the certificates in the second key ring would act as if they were individually connected to the first key ring. a Keyring contains pointers to digital certifi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

SMTP MAXMSGSENT needs retry interval setting

When on user of a tcpip address sends more then 30 emails to another mail server that server turns all emails off to the sending tcpip address.The SMTP MAXMSGSENT can limit how many connections can be sent to a single tcpip connection. If there wa...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Request new system call from LE on z/OS platform

We have a client who's using C++ collate transform() functions; and has reported an issue with its functionality. After our investigation, our development team has determined that in order to get the desired functionality, we rely on some new func...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

M/T 2964 (z13) WCU Pump Switch

This is a customer request (Walmart) to be able to manually switch the WCU pumps. Currently the WCU pumps switch ever 47 days. Customer had a couple of situations where the customer supply loop valves were not open on the redundant supply loop and...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of FTP client port range

Create parm to restrict FTP client ports in the same way FTP server is allowed to restrict passive ports to a specific range.. This will eliminate a common complaint of firewall admins that they don' want to open a large range of ports in the fire...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands

Please look to add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands. The NETSTAT command is already controlled by the EZB.NETSTAT.** profile in the SERVAUTH class.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

syntax checker z/os 2.1 enhance verify valid port portrange statement parms please pmr 69125 Donna

my colleague Nick Down dedeuced that the TCPIP syntaxchecker does not check for consistency between port and portrange statements. This is because the checks are for syntactically correct statements. The syntaxchecker doesn't check for logic error...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

HSM ML2 Tape Selection problem - Scratch volumes requested even if some Partial Tape are available

Scratch volumes requested even if some Partial Tape are available in ML2 Table in TS3500 libraries environment.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

Add zkey / paes support for the ZFS filesystem encryption

Canonical/Ubuntu is exploring using ZFS native encryption (without LUKS) when deploying on the ZFS Linux filesystem. ZFS is already available on Ubuntu Server for s390x. Currently with LUKS on s390x installers default to using zkey/paes if availab...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Not under consideration