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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on May 6, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Add SNMP manager usage of MIBS.DATA for processing alert traps

We are running OSNMP in a started task to receive messages over port 162 from outboard hardware. Previous to z/OS 2.3 the messages come across as EBCDIC and we could use automation to create alerts for warning and critical messages. Now under z/OS 2.3, the messages come across as an ASCII string and are unreadable. This change in behavior was caused by FIN APAR PI66903, preventing the automatic conversion of Octet Strings as if they are ASCII strings, generating the HEX dump of the buffer instead. As stated in the support case: It appears that the underlying issue is that the MIBS.DATA input is not used when decoding the packet, it is only used when creating a GET type request.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 19, 2023
    This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into product plan.

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