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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 19, 2015

Enhance SERVAUTH SAFNAME for Netaccess to hold an entire IPv4 or IPv6 Address

Please enhance the SAF name for SERVAUTH class NETACCESS statement so I can simply code an entire IPv4 or IPv6 address as the SAF name.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Apr 23, 2020

    Discussed this requirement with Joel Tilton quite a while back. While we agree that a longer name would be ideal, the use of per-address NETACCESS rules is very unusual and the current scheme is quite satisfactory for almost all other users. We appreciate and admire this customer's extensive use of NETACCESS rules, but implementing this RFE would be extremely costly and would not provide benefit across a wide range of users. As such, it would be unlikely that we would ever implement this RFE. Given all of that, we are rejecting this RFE.

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Networking
    Product - z/OS Communications Server