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Allow CSSMTP to set permission bits for its folders

Allow the permission bits to be set on the folders CSSMTP uses and allow these to be set via the CSSMTP configuration member.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Sysplex Distributor stacks to only use DYNAMICXCF link if they are active at both sides

Currently Sysplex Distributor code assumes that the target and the distributor both have their DYNAMICXCF links active. In a CINET multiple stack environment, the distributor stack can have an active IUTSAMEH or Hipersockets interface and it will ...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Additional cleanup for VARY TCPIP,,SYSPLEX

When configured for SYSPLEXMONITOR a system may receive a "EZZ9675E SYSPLEX PROBLEM DETECTION CLEANUP HAS FAILED FOR TCPIP" message, setting several flags (XFCVT_PDCFAIL_Event/XFPD_Partial_cleanup) which essentially marks TCPIP as a non-member of ...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

LUNS/LUNR enhancement to support LUMAP usage

Add LUNS support to permit reading of LUMAP entries and managing associated LU names, where SLUGROUP can not be used.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

Provide some figures on OSA interface usage / utilization

Provide some OSA interface / port statistics about bandwidth usage and utilization which can be queried by NETSTAT command e.g. D TCPIP,,OSAINFO,INTFNAME=LNKGE00 The figures should display values for - highest peak (bandwidth usage since last acti...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Sysplex Distributor to recover more quickly from dead distributing LPAR

Enhancement to Sysplex Distributor more quickly to recognise the distributing LPAR is dead and for a backup distributing LPAR to take over the function.TCPIP sysplex autonomics allows a TCPIP stack to monitor itself and leave the sysplex when it i...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Enhance RACF-DELEGATED support for FTP to include when z/OS is the FTP client

I would like the z/OS Communications server to delegate z/OS FTP client activity outbound to another ID. That is as documented here:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r13.halz002/encalg.htm I understand...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

CSKL Listener Modification

IBM CSKL listener should be enhanced: 1) Standard Type CSKL Listener: What Standard Type CSKL Listener has:No peek data option, it erases first 50 bytes of the client data portion. Any transaction can be started by the standard listener because it...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Add support to IPCS to format SSL/TLS traffic for packet traces.

Add support to IPCS to format SSL/TLS traffic for packet traces. Currently the packet traces needs to be converted to sniffer format and then exported to a workstation to use a tool such as Wireshark to do the SSL/TLS formating of the trace.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enable the z/OS FTP Client program to recognize and make use of multiple IP addresses in the answer from a DNS name query

z/OS FTP Client program should have a configuration parameter in FTP.DATA to enable the program to recognize and make use of multiple IP addresses present in the answer from a DNS name query. Currently, the FTP Client uses only the first IP addres...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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