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To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

developement

to add High Water Mark for max API session to be reported into the statistics
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CONNECT DIRECT WINDOWS CONNECTION WITH HNAS SYSTEMS

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over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct. It is useful to have NDMPING on UNIX Connect:Direct to help CD Administrators to complete a validation test...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Passwordless login in CDWS

Our connect-direct node is using a passwordless unix user for communicating with our partners node (snode). As of right now (v 6.0.0.3) the Connect:Direct WebServices GUI is requiring password in order to login on our node. There seems to be no w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Select statistics with information of the XLATE name being used.

I currently use conversion tables for file transfers and receipts.But I need to have control over the logs, which tables are being used. Currently, I only identify in the Connect logs whether or not the transmission process is using a table (Selec...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Modify statarch.sh to Delete compressed stats files after "x" amount of days

Can code be added to the statarch.sh script so that after "x" amount of days the compressed stats files are purged/deleted?
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Group Functional Authorities in Connect Direct UNIX

In Connect Direct Windows, a local or domain group functional authority can be created. However, a similar functionality is not available in CD UNIX.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration