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Enable file exchange access to IBM Sterling Global High Availability Mailbox with Connect:Direct

Connect:Direct has the ability to transfer files using several application files storage platforms such as local files, NFS, S3, and others. This could be extended to support direct access to B2B Integrator mailboxes and, in particular, to Global ...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

File Agent: sort capability missing to guarantee files sequence

FA doesn't provide a mechanism to process the files located in a specific folder in a specific order (i.e. file sorted by timestamp, name, size ). There are scenarios where the sequence the Producer Application generates the files must be respecte...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Multiple User Credentials

Our product team has grown exponentially; we now have around 9 teams with 2-4 developers in each team, and potentially all will have PROD access to IV at some point. Currently, we only have one generic user credentials to make changes in PROD. Thi...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.Since we need get the file with Simplified Chinese path and name from headquarter frequently.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

Alt Comm outbound Retry feature

When failing to connect to primary host/ip, system uses alt com outbound to try alternate addresses. Should none of them work, system goes in retry state ONLY retrying with last hostIP in alt com outbound. This causes some retries to get stuck as ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Not under consideration

Get Network Availability - Array of Distribution Groups (IV)

- Ability to pass array of distribution groups in Get Network Availability similar to array of ship nodes in Get Node Availability- This can be used in multiple use cases:- Enquiry for cart against multiple delivery methods (standard delivery DG, ...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Adding support for Pipes to Connect:Direct by z/OS

Adding support for Pipes on Connect:Direct for z/OS can help to speed up the overal file transfer process for distributing dat towards distributed platforms.Analogy to functionality already available in C:D for Unix.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration