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Sterling Connect:Direct

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Enhancement of ndmapi_connect_c( )

There is an API in CD, it is ndmapi_connect_c(ERROR_H error, char * ndm_hostname, char * ndm_portname). But we need a new version of this API. It is like this: ndmapi_connect_c(ERROR_H error, char * ndm_hostname, char * ndm_portname, char *user_na...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 0 Future 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Not under consideration

Limit the number of processes by parameter for Sterling C:D HP NonStop

Since Sterling C:D for HP NonStop version 3.6.0 there is no way to limit the total number of concurrent sessions. This used to be the case by means of the License file which was used by version 3.5.0. The only way now is to configure the number of...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Provide SUBMIT ESF=YES feature for CONNECT:Direct-Unix

On C:D-z/OS, an Extended Submit Facility (ESF) option (syntax is ESF=YES) exists for the SUBMIT command to allow C:D transmission requests to be queued up even when C:D is down on the z/OS system; the requests are executed later when C:D has come ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Future consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

Have C:D log the expiration date of certificates it receives

Today, when C:D calls out to a remote server, it logs some details about the certificate it received. It would be nice if it also logged the expiration date. This would allow us to write, say, a Perl script to scan the logs once a day looking for ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

SMTP connections

We require that the SMTP connection used for notification, to be retried in the event the SMTP server is down. This could be retried x times prior to giving up. Also would it be possible to specify a secondary SMTP server in the event the primary ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

"%Complete" field failure with file great then 4,3GB

Command WRKCDPROC- function Display C:D Process with file greather then 4,3 GB, field "%Complete" showing wrong value greather then 100%. Printscreen of this state is attached. PMR ID: 15921,668,668
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Future consideration

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration