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My ideas: Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS

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Connect Direct Z/OS Password-less Sign-On : Use certificate authentication for the CD session. CD currently supports this for the API connection (e.g. port 1363) and exploring if this could be added for the server connection (i.e. port 1364). The goal would be to use the certificate Common Name as the user ID as we do for the API connection or expand to allow other sources for the user ID – Jobname, SPOE, in-line SIGNON, batch user ID, etc. – and define order of precedence.

Issue Description: Client has security initiative to remove passwords being exposed in jobs. If there is a sign on ID used it is ignored if there is a password less ID and defaults to the job card ID. If client removes password from the sign-on ca...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

Wildcards to send PDS datasets to Linux/Windows directories

Actually it's not possible to send PDS members from CDzOS to CDLinux or CDWindows, using wildcards, f.i. USER.PDS.DSN(*) to /user/path/*. We have several applications that are using other products like XCOM or MQFTE, and with these products it's p...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Provide Usermod or disable DGAXTABL by default

After installing PTFs UI91208, UI90597 we began having failures with transmissions which we later identified as DGAXTABL being introduced. PTF UI91208 had no hold information about updating DGAXTABL exit requirement whatsoever, and UI90597 had an ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Make Field Userid optional in Secure+ Admin Tool "Save Active" Panel

When you are using Security Exits for C:D Signon, you do not need to specify a userid at signon. I don't need this at the update job for Secure+ as well. Using the "Save Active" Panel, you have to enter a userid, but you can leave the password fie...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Generate statistics in CD z/OS when a node is not defined in the netmap

Connect:Direct z/OS can reject any incoming connection request which is not defined to the C:D NETMAP when parameter NETMAP.CHECK is set to ALL,ALL,FAIL and TCP,ALL,FAIL. Have Connect:Direct z/OS generated statistical records that IBM Sterling Con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Issue messages to the CDPLEX Manager job log when CDPLEX Servers enter and leave the XCF Group

there were no message observed in the CDPLEX Manager job log when a CDPLEX Server enters or leaves the XCF group, we feel it is extremely important to Broadridge and others that messages about the CDPLEX Servers when entering and leaving the CDPle...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

In CDPLEX environment, CD manager needs to issue a message to indicate server is down after receiving XCF signal

In case TS009569597, we have found CD manager hangs at shutdown due to shutdown has been initiated for CD manager but XCF signal for CD server down has not been received by CD manager.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

Include active MAXUSERS in high water mark SMF record

Highwater mark SMF record should include Active MAXUSERS to have full pictures of how region is performing. We've experienced BTL issues relating to high MAXUSERS counts and we don't have accurate insight into how many users are active at that time.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Propagate source DCB information to SNODE when using DATACLAS= keyword

The beauty of zOS-to-zOS COPYs is the inherent ability to automatically transfer the source DCB information to the SNODE side for proper dataset allocations. If the source DCB changes, the process does not need to be altered. This generic process ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Suppress the diagnostic data being written to CDESTAE for the SCPA019I error

We observed that there is a dump of the file in DD CDESTAE after the process failed with SCPA019I An input LRECL > output LRECL detected for compressed file. It is an exposure of business data so it would be appreciated if it can be disabled or...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

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