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Implement config or variable to enforce DGADBATC to use specific tcp stack in batch

We're using batch utility DGADBATC in a multiple tcpip stack(cinet) environment and would like to have a parm variable or other config option to specify the utility to utilize specific tcpip stack. The standard options like : //CEEOPTS DD * ENVAR(...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Ability to Select Statistics via CCAPI directly from monitored Connect:Direct server and not from Control Center database

Currently there is no possibility to display Select Statistics from Connect:Direct node via CCAPI *directly* from Connec:Direct server (it is possible using CDJAI but not CCAPI). Current solution allows to display only those Select Statistics that...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Make Connect Direct for z/OS the only handler of encryption and decryption. We dont want to grant users access to the Cryptografic Services Facility

We have noticed that Connect Direct for z/OS requests users submiting a job to have READ access to the CSFSERV when using any of the GCM ciphers.We want to use the highest available cipher without compromising the security by granting unrequired r...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change basic status/return value of Business Process

We have a custom business process defined, where we are retrying the failed step, especially the SFTP connection failures We were able to retry the failed step, but the basic status stay as error, in turn causing the jobs triggered from TWS failed...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Under review

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement to PGP Xprocessor functionality

Currently, The PGP XProcessor requires the following fields as input. The XProcessor Driver will look up the fields using the Profile Name and pass that data to the Utility class. Fields for Both Inbound and OutboundThe following fields are requir...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Processes which are NOT OK should remain in TCQ

In most situations, where a process ends not OK, it is moved from TCQ to statistics, i. e. LSMG244I. Finding the original //SYSIN of the batchjob for repeating is difficult and time consuming. There should be a mechanism (exit, initparm, ...) to i...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

SIGNON command could provide a parameter for the message file and process library

It is useful for the SIGNON command to provide additional CDz software file specification parameters like the NETMAP parameter. This allows a user to use the same JCL procedure but able to override DDs within the control cards of CDz's SYSIN witho...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration