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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 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Make package.folderWatchDelayInSecs Available in System Settings

My understanding is that the settings for package.folderWatchDelayInSecs are only available through the RESTful API. This setting along with all settings should be made available in the system settings as well.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Future consideration

CD Unix- CODEPAGE with "iconv -c" or substitution char

When CODEPAGE parameter is used for a transfer, iconv api is used internally by CD to codepage traduction in CDUnix-Linux and CDzOS (CDWindows doesn't use iconv, it's using Microsfot's API mlang.dll). When in the content of the source file there i...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 9 Functionality already exists

Customized Alerting Blackout Periods

We need the ability to set custom times for each node where if the node goes down it doesn't alert. We are looking to use Control Center to monitor multiple Connect:Directs throughout the company and a majority of the CD nodes have different maint...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Certificate tracking in Secure+

Request that statistics capture serial numbers of SSL certificates exchanged during CD secure+ file transfers between pnode and snode. Serial numbers should be visible in select statistics and CD Requester.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Future consideration

More granularity on scheduling of Control Center configuration updates

The ability to run configuration updates in Control Center needs to have more options than run daily at a specific time or never. Large environments cannot handle daily runs and should be able to be scheduled via a calendar option. It would also b...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

copy folder's files and sub-folders by C:D

FTP provides a generic feature of copy specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders. For example,we have the the path /path1/path2 and files 1a,1b in /path1;2a,2b in path2.if we copy /path1 by FTP then we copy all these four fils. But C:...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration