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To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 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...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 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...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under 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.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

File agent high availability run GUI cdfa -C from a single Default_Config.ser copy in shared workspace

Instead of maintaining multiple local copies of Default_Config.ser, could a parm be added to cdfa -C to direct GUI to use a single copy in the shared directory. Similar to the cdfa -w parameter.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Unique Variable for Connect:Direct Windows

During heavy load it happens that Connect:Direct processes submitted at the same time produce identical timestamp values that are used for target filenames.Also the %PRAND variable in Connect:Direct Windows returns the same value within the same m...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Stand Alone File Agent - Do Path Match

Reference TS011100108. It is my understanding that enhancements have been done with Integrated File Agent, but the same enhancements have not been made to stand alone File Agent. One such enhancement, is to do path matching. With stand alone File ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration