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Change wording of Close Activity dialog

When the dialog appears for closing an activity the options are "Close" and "Cancel". This is mildly confusing for the user, as usually "Close" means close the dialog. Also, the close button appears in different places (see attachment for further ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 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

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

Dynamic Form Rendering and Dynamic Form Validation

Currently it is observed that in PEM screen there is no Dynamic Validation i.e. If there are multiple fields in one form and we need to show more/less fields depending upon the values user inputs in one of the field on same screen then it is not p...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Future consideration

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

Image Support

When uploading images currently, they are currently limited to the following formats: .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, and .bitmap There are additional image formats which would be helpful to support. SVG, TIF, PSD, EPS, AI, INDD, RAW Unlike older formats...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 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

Connect:Direct for zOS copying files to SNODE (Linux or Windows ) at the same time using a '*' mask to individual datasets

The client SERPRO would like that was possible in Connect:Direct CDP pull a list of datasets that meet your dataset mask with the '*' (for eg. ABCDEF*.TXT)and based on that list of datasets that match then to start copies each of the datasets one ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

oceans as inexhaustible source of hydrogen

Some years ago, I was the P.I. for a proposal to the EU with German, Spanish and Polish partners, for Autonomous Sailboats Moving Turbines to harvest hydrogen from sea water. The key to the economics of this how much of the energy obtained from th...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration