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Sterling Connect:Direct

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HP-Nonstop Connect:Direct Maxdelay

Request for Maxdelay feature in C:D HP NonStop. To wait for the completion of a submit statement or interval time completes.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 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.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Protect or encrypt or sign all Audit records to protect or capture changes

Audit functions in CD are not consistently recorded in an immutable form so that attempts to alter them are inhibited. Many configurations in UNIX CD are not audited at all because the configurations are in plain text files with no tracking. All c...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Supoprt for HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)

What version of Sterling Connect:Direct Linux/Windows will support Hadoop HDFS? Do you have any release date? I found similar thread at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=65228 but I didn't see any updates. T...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Externalize Role permissions for users so one account can be used for viewing and changing configurations

The permissions assigned to CD users/admins needs to be externalized to LDAP such that we can dynamically update the LDAP rights/group membership during approved changes to permit a user to make changes as themselves instead of elevating to the se...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Please Test and Certify SQL Server AlwaysOn for Connect Direct

Please test and certify Connect Direct support for SQL server AlwaysOn. Our infrastructure team is pushing us to move our Windows install of C:D to SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups. Our lab advocate asked for this RFE as IBM has not t...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option

Connect Direct for UNIX silent install only has one option to install the client CLI and the server component. The silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option to install.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

same-place NDM logging in load balanced solution - C:D Unix

In the C:D for Unix v4.1 Load Balancing solution, the NDM logs are written to the individual servers that are in the load balance loop, and the log for one job is not visible on the other servers in the loop. There needs to be an allowance for NDM...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

HA solution for Connect:Direct using replication

Since Cloud VMs are widely used these days, has IBM considered to certify HA solution for Connect:Direct on Cloud VMs without requiring OS-level clustering software such as Windows Clustering or Veritas Cluster Software (VCS) for Linux? Those OS-l...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration