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CDW services should be running as non-system and non-admin user account

Our security assessment team found an issue with 'System' running CDW services by default. Although IBM allows a service account to run CDW services, it requires this account to be a member of local admin group. Either method causes security conce...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Not under consideration

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

Ability to start individual App Server

There are situation, very often, that requires us to restart API servers, Call center servers, specific agent, specific integ server. We do not have that ability in the OMoC. Like we can pull call center logs, but we cannot restart just call cente...
almost 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Creation of an ANSI X12 type tree that supports Plan Member Reporting.

The transaction is actually an 834 but is different from the 005010X220A1 834 used for Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance. The GS08 value for this transaction is 005010X318 and the TR3 was releases in November 2016.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration