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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

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

Connect:Direct netmap may contain only 3 addresses on HP Nonstop

Hello, Today on unix, mainframe or windows the number of alternate ip addresses that we may enter in a netmap definition is unlimited. On HP Nonstop (not HP-UX), we are limited to 3 hostnames or ip addresses (the documentation says: IPADDR=ip.addr...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct API Independent From C:D Server

We are attempting to use Control Center to manage our instances of C:D and Control Center connects via the C:D API. Some of C:D instances sit in different datacenters behind a load balancer in an active/inactive state. We would like to be able to ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under 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

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

Increase Width Limit of Dialogs

Currently there is a maximum width of 1000 px. We would like to request a wider dialog size option. This would help to fit information nicely on the screen and reduce number of screens.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Allow all tasks to be edited until completion of the activity

Currently once a Partner completes a task, and move on to the next task they are unable to go back and edit the already completed tasks. We would like to make it possible for Partners to be able to go to previous tasks and edit already completed t...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Messaging within PEM

Provide messaging with logging/audit trail between participants in PEM.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

We are upgrading our IBMI servers to V7R5 and need connect:direct compatibilty.

We are currently on V7R4 and have been told that the recommended connect direct patch level is V3.8.0.3 with iFix 7. We need to know the compatible level for V7R5 (when available)
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists