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Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS

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Provide message CSPA600W that would be displayed on MVS console or log.

Message CSPA600W is currently only displayed in Connect Direct joblog/started task log and would be beneficial to have available to be automated so corrective action could be taken. Other products display license expiration messages and expiring c...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SMS Compressed Dataset Enhancement with NDM

Visa would like to see Connect Direct transmission of SMS compressed datasets improved. Today, when we transmit a compressed dataset, if it is done with out coding the DCB parms in the process it always fails on the remote node with a space abend....
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Terminate the Process Waiting for Dynamic Allocation or Unallocation

CDz runs into temporarily unresponsive periodically 5 to 10 min or even longer due to the reason that SYSZTIOT ENQ exclusively held by CDz itself in which one process can't perform dynamical allocation or un allocation holding all other processes ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable Transfer of Entire USS Directory via C:D z/OS

Sending Unix files on Z via C:D is tedious at best. I'd like for Connect:Direct to at least be on par with FTP functionality-wise if I'm going to try to convince users that it's in fact the better choice. C:D needs to be able to transfer an entire...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

NAS Support

We need NDM to read/write files from NAS connected drives. NAS is becoming a larger portion of our datacenter and will need to send/receive files on NAS. This worked under 5.1 but not for 5.2...I know it was never supported but was handy it worked...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

delete file by C:D API not by RUN TASK&RUN JOB for z/os

Now we delete file by C:D using RUN TASK or RUN JOB,we want to delete file by CD API not system command.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow CDPlex to utilize the SERVER/NODE name in Redirect vs. IP Address

In the current architecture of CDPlex, REDIRECT parameters allow for the distinction between internal (trusted) remote nodes and external (non trusted) remote nodes. When a request comes into CDPlex and a target SERVER is selected, either an inter...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

NDMCOM User lenthg issue when adding SPOE entry

We have a requirement where we need to add SPOE entry which is greater than 17 characters and we are not able to add the userid in UPD SEC. Can you please increase userid length from 17 characters to 30 Characters. CD.17.>INSERT SECURITY SNODE....
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration