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z/OS

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Implement SO_REUSEADDR for FTP passived data ports distributed in a sysplex

APAR PK53319 added SO_REUSEADDR functionality for passive data ports used by FTP. However, this applied only to local portranges. When using passive FTP in a sysplex environment, the SO_REUSEADDR functionality is not implemented. As a result, sysp...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 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.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

SYSLOGD logging messages to LOG_DAEMON & LOG_ERR

Currently the SYSLOGD component routine loginfo() is unconditionally calling logmsg() to log the messages for LOG_DAEMON and LOG_ERR to both the daemon and errors files. Have all error messages go to the errors file and all the normal messages for...
over 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...
over 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...
over 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...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Modify Comm Server CICS Listener so that it has logic to recover from TCPIP leaving the SYSPLEX and not just a stack failure.

We would like the current Comm Server CICS listener code to have built in recovery for not only a TCP stack failure but also when the stack leaves the SYSPLEX when SYSPLEXMONITOR kicks in.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

DSWAITTIME

Make DSWAITTIME not only available for DISK files but also for TAPE files
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

If only one CTG instance in a Sysplex and its health is zero, Sysplex Distributor should't send work to this CTG instance

CTG daemon health is used by Sysplex Distributor in order to make a decision about to send requests to a particular CTG instance in a Parallel Sysplex scenery. If there are n CTG instances, each one on one of n LPARs, SD doesn't send requests to t...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OS CS OMPROUTE: Add subnet mask conflict check for IPCONFIG DYNAMICXCF used for Samehost, EZAXCF, and IQDIO devices

Issue error message to indicate subnet mask conflict between the one coded on an OMPROUTE interface definition (OSPF_INTERFACE and INTERFACE) used for Samehost, EZAXCF, and IQDIO devices. For example, similar to OMPROUTE message EZZ8164I: EZZxxxxI...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration