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z/OS

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TN3270 LU group activation

For various operational reasons, pooled or pre-assigned LUs will be temporarily unavailable when TN3270 clients connect. When the OPEN ACB fails, TN3270 puts these LUs in an inactive pool displayable with the D TCPIP,,TELNET,INACTLUS command. Thes...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide Full Life Cycyle Management in PKI Servers for RACF Certificates

Enhance PKI Servies so it can provide full life cycle management for certificates it creates in SAF.
about 11 years ago in z/OS / PKI 3 Not under consideration

zERT Data Field manipulation

Ability to disable/enable zERT Statistics (or other “uninteresting” data fields).
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Batch FTP

Add ability to enter PORT number in Batch FTP PROC . Currently can only do //FTP EXEC PGM=FTP, // PARM='9.23.246.20 2021 (EXIT TI 900 TRACE ' The required HostName must be there or the PORT would be assumed HostName..Suggesting if Hostname on the ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide an example similar to SYS1.TCPI.SEZAINST(SMTPNOTE) that operates in the USS environment.

For users not wanting to implement sendmail client/daemon in the USS environment, a good working example for using the facilities of the CSSMTP daemon is needed.This example should have similar functionality as the SMTPNOTE REXX EXEC provided for ...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add PURGE option to MVSPUT dsn (REALLOCATE

Communications Server FTP MVSPUT provides a (REALLOCATE option, so that when a file of the same name exists at the destination site the current file is deleted to allow the new file to be stored. However, if the file at the destination site has an...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add support to the z/OS FTP server for uploading RDW data

The z/OS FTP Server has long been able to download binary data from RECFM=V* datasets with RDWs prepended to each record. However, there is no mechanism for uploading similar data and have the record boundaries respected. There is currently no met...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SDB not working as advertised

SDB not working as advertised as below from ISMF: HELP-------------------- SYSTEM DETERMINED BLOCKSIZE -------------------HELPCOMMAND ===> Use the SYSTEM DETERMINED BLOCKSIZE (SDB) field to specify that the system determined blocksize should be...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Allow allocating target data set using attributes of an uncataloged data set

When creating a new data set from contents within an edit session, panel ISRMCALL allows creating a new data set to match the attributes of the data set whose content is being copied.    If the attribute data set is not cataloged, a "Dat...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

CSSMTP: support IDN addresses (convert to punycode)

When working with a domain name containing international (non-ASCII) characters, we need to convert the domain name for example into "punycode" before entering it into the DNS server.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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