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Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We have...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...

Generated columns to be supported in Multi Format Logical files

We have a new Gentran configuration that uses an external SQL table in Application Definition. This can be helpful for us since we have a standard is creating a table. We have columns that have a "Generated Always" attribute and we encounter this ...

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 ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Future 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.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Gentran:Server SMTP is currently not supported with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocols. We need a solution to make it work once we migrate to SMTP/TLS protocol.

All Gentran Server clients planning to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocol.

IDoc Control Record must contain tag EDI_DC40_U for Foreign Language to be in readable format within the SAP Environment

Changing the Control Record EDI_DC40__ (__ equals two trailing spaces) to EDI_DC40_U (one space and a U). Which when exported to a single file the output is okay, but the very first field in the record is 300, so the output = "EDI_DC40_U300" the f...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add VDA Version 4938 Global Invoice to Map definitions

This version is required by our trading partners.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Standards 0 Submitted

Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Disclose installation documents to users

We have documentation regarding Gentran:Director, but the last update is 2011. It looks obsolete. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sterling-gentrandirector-documentation
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted