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Need Way to Modify Some FTP.DATA Parms w/o Knowing Where Defaults Come From

I need a way to add or override one or a few FTP.DATA parameters in a batch FTP job without needing to specify what the other values are or where they come from.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

FTP client and server exits need to be able to provide syslogd message submission

The current implementation of customer developed FTP client and server exits does not allow for a message to output to syslogd.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for the TN3270E Telnet Server

The support for Kerberos in z/OS is not included in the TN3270E-server. The FTP-client and server and the System i 5250-server has this support. Kerberos plays an important rule for improving security in a companys internal network.Other "similar"...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Improve FTP buffer usage

Improve the FTP server's usage of send buffers. Currently, the FTP server uses an 180K buffer to send data. Depending upon the LRECL and BLOCKSIZE of the data set, the actual amount of data sent by FTP can be much less than the 180K buffer can hol...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

System symbolic support for EZABROWS to allow for system name support

Syslogd syslog.conf supports system symbolics when defining the files for syslogd to write to. EZABROWS should also support system symbolics when reading the syslog.conf. This would allow one syslog.conf file to be used in the sysplex and have EZA...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Add commas in FTP progress messages

We've been using the z/OS ftp client to transfer large files a lot recently.The ftp client reports on the file size that is about to be transfered, and issues a progress message (EZA1485I) every 10 seconds.It would be very helpfull if the amount o...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

system sybomlic in FTP config files

Would like to be able to use system symbolic in ftp to setup the keyring finuction.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add Max since last display message to TCPIP,,STOR command

When doing the TCPIP STOR we only get the maximum that the storage for TCPIP has gotten to for the whole time. However if we do things to relieve a situation it would be good to know what the largest Storage was when we last did the command. This ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

CSV Format for NETSTAT DISPLAY Commands

We use a lot of displays to see current system status, Many of these commands have counters that we want to import to excel to be able to track. For example VDPT would be nice to track over time changes in counts or different values (such as TSR)....
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Provisioning Tools CICS port Allocation Request

When the z/OS Provisioning Tools allocates ports during CICS provisioning, a VARY OBEY is issued. I would like an enhancement that would do the port allocation but not do the VARY OBEY.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

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