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Prompt FTP client to trust remote CA issuer

When connecting to a remote FTPS server and the issuer is not trusted in DCM, prompt the user to all to continue with the SSL connection Use Case: Send data
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 6 Delivered

Implement TCP Selective Acknowledgements

Instead of re-transmitting the packet AND ALL SUBSEQUENT packets in a block, instead use Selective Acknowledgements to re transmit ONLY the packet in error. Today IBM i re-transmits many times the number of packets that are actually required! Use ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Flexible sender email address

Have the option to have a flexible sender email address a CL command with which I can send email. Use Case: Customers require us to have more flexibility when sending email from IBM i. In not all cases the job with which we send email can be run u...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 12 Delivered

Configure the IBM i SMTP Client to use SMTP Authentication without SSL/TLS

We try to configure the IBM i SMTP Client to use SMTP Authentication without SSL/TLS We can send the email to a receipt that having the same domain as sender. However, when sending to a receipt that with different domain, the receipt cannot get th...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 8 Delivered

Socket exit cannot handle high volume of network tranascations

Socket Exit QIBM_QSO_ACCEPT incoming packets act like it is serialize. On a larger system with many network connection, this exit point is not usable, Performance degrade with High volume of transactions Use Case: Installing Exit Program on Exit P...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Upgrade dns BIND to a current version

Upgrade BIND level to a level which will allow us to pass audits. Simply patching ancient versions of BIND to address various CVE's does not help us to pass audits.See https://www.isc.org/downloads/the BIND level on 7.1 and above is way back at 9....
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 2 Delivered

64-bit LDAP services for DTAMDL(*LLP64) STGMDL(*TERASPACE)

Our company is a software vendor. We have started a project to convert our product (written in C++) to 64-bit pointers. We compile and link our C++ programs using DTAMDL(*LLP64) STGMDL(*TERASPACE). Our product uses LDAP services extensively. LDAP ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Delivered

Add mail forwarding capability to the new *SMTP and *SMTPMSF server types

Add mail forwarding capability to the new *SMTP and *SMTPMSF server types BackgroundThe older *SDD smtp mail server which depended on the System Distribution Directory has the capability to configured a user's directory entry to allow mail sent to...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Delivered

explicit ssl connections to the ftps control port on the IBM i , either 990 or other port.

Regarding new Data Protection Regulations (GDPR implementation) this and other Clients need to change traditional Insecure FTP to FTP over TLS/SSL. However, because of Security Firewall Systems limitations we have to use Explicit FTP in passive mo...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Networking 21 Delivered

Configure IBM i to return public IP on passive mode request

In passive mode request the IBM i is responding with an IP address on the system. We would like passive mode request to be configurable. For example, we would like to insert the network public address in IBM i passive mode responses. Use Case: We ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Networking 5 Delivered

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