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    Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

    Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
    4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Needs more information

    Test compatibility windows server 2025 and SSP

    Our organization want to migrate from windows server 2019 to windows server 2025 by 4th quarter of 2026
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 5 Future consideration

    Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

    CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
    6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Enhance security and stability bu introducing Customer level session limit to safeguard performance.

    The Proposal is to introduce customer level session rate limiting in SSP to enhance stability and security. We can add a enhancement by monitoring session creation rates per customer- identified bu login ID, certificate or IP-SSP can enforce confi...
    6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

    Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

    Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
    12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

    Please include both userIDs in the SMF 132 record for SU - Select User events for the CDz authorization file.

    The CDz SMF 132 record records a wealth of data. Batch JCL for CDz execution allows the command "SEL USER WHERE (USERID=(*)) EXCLUDE = (AUTH)" to list users in the CDz authorization file. You (IBM CDz development support) display both userIDs in t...
    10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

    In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
    almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Keep Netmap CREATED, UPDATED, USED AS xNODE fields

    There are inconsistencies with the logic of the NETMAP entry fields, CREATED, UPDATED, and USED AS xNODEs, as they can lose true history of the netmap entries. CREATED Date/Time stamp is lost on the netmap unload and load process and if $$REPLACE ...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

    "Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

    Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
    almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

    Automating the regular NDM tasks

    We are performing Netmap updates and secure + updates via NDM panels. We need to automate these manual tasks so it will reduce any human error and save time.
    about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

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