General updates of IP operator commands

Table 1 lists the new and updated Communications Server IP operator commands, except the Netstat operator command DISPLAY TCPIP,,NETSTAT and the Telnet operator commands. See the following tables for those commands:
Table 1. General summary of new and changed Communications Server operator commands
Command Parameters Release Description Reason for change
DISPLAY TCPIP,,HELP TRACE V2R1 New parameter that provides a help message for the new DISPLAY TCPIP,,TRACE command syntax. Real-time application-controlled TCP/IP trace NMI
DEFADDRT V1R12 The syntax of the new DISPLAY TCPIP,,NETSTAT,DEFADDRT command is displayed. Configurable default address selection policy table
N/A V1R12 The new OSAINFO command is displayed as one of the supported DISPLAY TCPIP commands. Operator command to query and display OSA information
OSAINFO V1R12 The syntax of the new OSAINFO command is displayed. Operator command to query and display OSA information
ROUTE V1R12 The displayed syntax of the DISPLAY TCPIP,,NETSTAT,ROUTE command includes the new RADV command modifier. Enhancements to IPv6 router advertisement
DISPLAY TCPIP,,OMPROUTE IPV6OSPF,IF,NAME=if_name V2R1 The report is enhanced to display the number of IPv6 OSPF packets that are received on the interface that contained errors (# ERR PKTS RCVD), such as bad packet type, bad length, or bad checksum. Fix OMPROUTE vulnerability to malformed packets
IPV6OSPF,NBR,ID=router-id V2R1 The report is enhanced to display the number of IPv6 link state advertisements received (# ERR LS RCVD) from the neighbor that were unexpected or contained errors, such as bad advertisement type, bad length, or bad checksum. Fix OMPROUTE vulnerability to malformed packets
OSPF,IF,NAME=if_name V2R1 The report is enhanced to display the number of IPv4 OSPF packets that were received on the interface that contained errors (# ERR PKTS RCVD), such as bad packet type, bad length, or bad checksum. Fix OMPROUTE vulnerability to malformed packets
OSPF,NBR,IPADDR=ip_addr V2R1 The report is enhanced to display the number of IPv4 link state advertisements received (# ERR LS RCVD) from the neighbor that were unexpected or contained errors, such as bad advertisement type, bad length, or bad checksum. Fix OMPROUTE vulnerability to malformed packets
OPTIONS V2R1 Added new report to display the OMPROUTE GLOBAL_OPTIONS configuration information. Ignore_Undefined_Interfaces is the only one global option. OMPROUTE adjacency preservation improvements
RT6TABLE V2R1
  • Added the PRTABLE=ALL parameter to display routes in all OMPROUTE IPv6 policy-based routing tables.
  • Added the PRTABLE=tablename parameter to display routes in a single OMPROUTE IPv6 policy-based routing table
IPv6 support for policy-based routing
DISPLAY TCPIP,,OMPROUTE (continued) IPV6OSPF,ALL V1R13 Report includes the new RouterID configuration source definition from an OSPF configuration statement or the assigned interface name. The source is displayed after the RouterID value. TCP/IP serviceability enhancements
OSPF,STATISTICS V1R13 Report includes the new RouterID configuration source definition from an OSPF configuration statement or the assigned interface name. The source is displayed after the RouterID value. TCP/IP serviceability enhancements
RT6TABLE V1R12 Default routes learned from IPv6 router advertisements are displayed with a metric of 1 when the router advertisement indicated a preference of high, 2 when the router advertisement indicated a preference of medium, or 3 when the router advertisement indicated a preference of low. In past releases, these routes were always displayed with a metric of 0. Configurable default address selection policy table
DISPLAY TCPIP,,OSAINFO N/A V1R12 New command that displays OSA-Express QDIO datapath device information, including registered addresses and routing variables. Operator command to query and display OSA information
DISPLAY TCPIP,,STOR N/A V2R1 Displays the 64-bit storage allocated for Shared Memory Communications over Remote Direct Memory Access (SMC-R) processing. Shared Memory Communications over Remote Direct Memory Access
N/A V1R13 Output display is restructured to reflect the 31-bit storage and 64-bit storage usage. See message EZZ8453I for details. Increased CTRACE and VIT capacity
N/A V1R12 Dynamic LPA module storage removed from ECSA storage usage and placed in new CSA MODULES storage usage. Enhancements to the TCP/IP storage display
DISPLAY TCPIP,,TRACE N/A V2R1 New command that provides information about applications that are using the Real-time application-controlled TCP/IP trace NMI. Real-time application-controlled TCP/IP trace NMI
MODIFY CSSMTP DISPLAY,CONFIG V2R1 Displays the Header configuration statement CSSMTP mail message date header handling option
FLUSHRetry,AGE=day V1R13 Flush extended retry mail over AGE= days old. CSSMTP extended retry
DISPLAY,CONFIG V1R13 Displays the new JESSyntaxErrLimit statement value. CSSMTP enhancements
DISPLAY,CONFIG V1R12 Command to display the SMF119 configuration parameters. Management data for CSSMTP
MODIFY DCAS N/A V1R12 New command which provides the modification of DCAS debug level after the DCAS server has been started. Digital certificate access server (DCAS) MODIFY command for debug level
MODIFY DMD DISPLAY V2R1 The display output includes the setting of the new DefaultLogLimit parameter. Limit defensive filter logging
REFRESH V2R1 The value of the new DefaultLogLimit parameter can be changed by updating the DMD configuration file and issuing MODIFY DMD,REFRESH. Limit defensive filter logging
MODIFY IKED DISPLAY V1R12 Report includes the following new field: FIPS140 IPSec support for FIPS 140 cryptographic mode
MODIFY NSSD DISPLAY V1R12 Report includes the following new fields:
  • FIPS140
  • URLCacheInterval
  • CertificateURL
  • CertificateBundleURL
REFRESH V1R12 Updated to indicate whether cached certificate URL data should be flushed.
MODIFY OMPROUTE IPV6OSPF,ALL V1R13 Report includes the new RouterID configuration source definition from an OSPF configuration statement or the assigned interface name. The source is displayed after the RouterID value. TCP/IP serviceability enhancements
OSPF,STATISTICS V1R13 Report includes the new RouterID configuration source definition from an OSPF configuration statement or the assigned interface name. The source is displayed after the RouterID value. TCP/IP serviceability enhancements
MODIFY omproute_procname RT6TABLE V2R1
  • Added the PRTABLE=ALL parameter to display routes in all OMPROUTE IPv6 policy-based routing tables.
  • Added the PRTABLE=tablename parameter to display routes in a single OMPROUTE IPv6 policy-based routing table
IPv6 support for policy-based routing
MODIFY RESOLVER DISPLAY V1R13 When the autonomic quiesce of unresponsive name servers function is active, message EZD2035I is displayed for each name server in the global TCPIP.DATA file. System resolver autonomic quiescing of unresponsive name servers
REFRESH[,SETUP=] V1R13 When the autonomic quiesce of unresponsive name servers function is active after completion of the MODIFY command processing, message EZD2035I is displayed for each name server in the global TCPIP.DATA file. System resolver autonomic quiescing of unresponsive name servers
VARY TCPIP,, DATTRACE N/A V1R12 Data trace will automatically create new start and end records for TCP and UDP sockets. Data trace records for socket data flow start and end
VARY TCPIP,,DROP PORT=, JOBNAME=, ASID= V1R12 The command is enhanced to drop all TCP connections associated with server applications. The new parameters are used as filters to identify the server or servers whose TCP connections should be dropped Command to drop all connections for a server
VARY TCPIP,,SYNTAXCHECK N/A V2R1 New command that can be used to check the syntax of TCP/IP profile configuration statements without affecting the system operation or network configuration. Check TCP/IP profile syntax without applying configuration changes