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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 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add Certificate Authentication capability to the CD Web Services REST API web interface (swagger).

CD Web Services supports certificate authentication for the web UI and also for REST API calls, but the provided web UI interface for testing REST API (swagger, path is cdws-doc/signOn.html) does not. This makes it difficult to design and test sol...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Add a feature to load codelist to IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Design studio for local testing

We are using codelists for 90 percent of clients and currently, we do not have an option to load the codelists to the ITX design studio for local testing as we do for the SI mapping server. We are depending on CTE/Production testing to validate ma...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

PGP UnPackage service to identify if the file was encrypted or signed only

When a signed file is process in Filegateway and with PGP preference set (decryption,sign verification On )PGP UnPackage service does not provide error to state that the file was only signed and not able to decrypt. The PGP UnPackage service compl...
over 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

HP-Nonstop Connect:Direct Maxdelay

Request for Maxdelay feature in C:D HP NonStop. To wait for the completion of a submit statement or interval time completes.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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 ...

Need to build ITX 10.1.2.0 maps using Jenkins Pipeline and deploy in Linux environment

As part of our current process whenever we want to integrate ITX map with JAVA API, then we try to build any specific map in Design studio with specific environment like 'Build for specific platform' as 'Linux(INTEL processor). And move already bu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Functionality already exists